Barbecue (film)

This article is about the 2014 French comedy film. For the 1988 U.S. short film, see Bar-B-Que Movie.

Barbecue is a 2014 French ensemble comedy film directed by Éric Lavaine.

Barbecue
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Éric Lavaine
Written by	Éric Lavaine Héctor Cabello Reyes
Produced by	François Cornuau Vincent Roget Olivier Courson
Starring	Lambert Wilson Franck Dubosc Florence Foresti Guillaume de Tonquédec Lionel Abelanski Jérôme Commandeur
Cinematography	François Hernandez
Edited by	Vincent Zuffranieri
Production companies	Same Player Canal+ TF1
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release date	30 April 2014 (2014-04-30)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$11.1 million [1]
Box office	$14.5 million [2]

Cast

• Lambert Wilson as Antoine Chevalier
• Franck Dubosc as Baptiste
• Florence Foresti as Olivia
• Guillaume de Tonquédec as Yves
• Lionel Abelanski as Laurent
• Jérôme Commandeur as Jean-Mich'
• Sophie Duez as Véronique Chevalier
• Lysiane Meis as Laure
• Valérie Crouzet [fr] as Nathalie
• Lucas Lavaine as Guillaume
• Corentin Lavaine as Hugo
• Stéphane De Groodt as Alexandre
• Philippe Laudenbach as Jean Chevalier
• Julie Engelbrecht as The pretty blonde

Reception

Mike McCahill of The Guardian called Barbecue a "boringly white-bread with no cinematic ambition".^[3]

While attending Beijing International Film Festival, Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter had this to say about the film: "[A] half-baked comedy-drama about a group of bourgeois friends who have to confront the pitfalls of middle age".^[4]

Representing The New York Times, Nicolas Rapold called the film "[a] kind of utterly unremarkable local product", but added that "its loosely written story doubles as a smirk-inducing glimpse at what feel like very Gallic life challenges".^[5]