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THE JOY OF SINGING (LE PLAISIR DE CHANTER) Movie Reviews
Story: French comedy about two spies who infiltrate an opera class in order to surveil a recently widowed woman believed to be in possession of certain uranium secrets. Cast: Marina Foïs, Lorànt Deutsch, Jeanne Balibar, Julien Baumgartner, Nathalie Richard Director: Ilan Duran Cohen Opened: January 1, 2010 Length: 1 hr. 39 min.
The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter), Very Good Reviews Chicago
Updated: Fri, Apr 20 2012, 08:54am
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The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter) played in Chicago to very good reviews. • Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times, "...the goofiest thrill-sex-music-spy movie in many a moon... I'll award a shiny new dime to anyone who watches this film once and can tell me who is doing what and to whom and for what reason. It just doesn't matter."  More Reviews Below...

The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)
Positive Reviews
(4 Reviews,  reviews below)
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Reviews & Quotes (4)

BROAD NATIONAL PRESS (1 Review)
Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...the goofiest thrill-sex-music-spy movie in many a moon... I'll award a shiny new dime to anyone who watches this film once and can tell me who is doing what and to whom and for what reason. It just doesn't matter." (Read the full review...)
536 words, 01/01/10
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (2 Reviews)
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...its rangy personality offers a marked contrast to the one- or, at best, two-track Hollywood products commonly filling the multiplex.... Whether this film's brand of High Quirk is for you, well, that's for you to find out." (Read the full review...)
417 words, 01/01/10

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...the goofiest thrill-sex-music-spy movie in many a moon... I'll award a shiny new dime to anyone who watches this film once and can tell me who is doing what and to whom and for what reason. It just doesn't matter." (Read the full review...)
536 words, 01/01/10
KEY CITIES (0 Reviews)
 The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter) has not been reviewed in Key Cities
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (0 Reviews)
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HIGHBROW PRESS (0 Reviews)
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MOVIE INDUSTRY (2 Reviews)
Jay Weissberg, Daily Variety: EXCELLENT
"Delightful, funny and refreshingly unpredictable... For a film trading in seemingly cartoonish characters, director Ilan Duran Cohen succeeds beautifully in investing his story with multidimensional elements that give depth to his madcap plot..." (Read the full review...)
642 words, 10/30/08

Natasha Senjanovic, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD
"Just one notch below porn for its sex scenes... as entertaining as it is unabashedly silly... the film never takes itself seriously as the plot gets increasingly more convoluted and the joy of singing helps everyone discover their true, nutty natures." (Read the full review...)
255 words, 10/30/08
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Review Mixture
8.0 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews
(Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)

The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)'s reviews are separated by an average 8.0 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.

The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)
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Coverage, Volume & Length

Coverage: The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)'s reviews cover 4.7% of potential readers (average is 68.2%). Volume: The film's reviews total 1,850 words in volume (average is 19,979 words). Length: The film's reviews average 462 words in length (the norm is 512 words).

The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)
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Opening Day Reviews
Reviews Broke 86 Days Before Release (Norm is 0.2 Release)

The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)'s reviews on average broke 86 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 0.2 hours after. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.

The Joy of Singing (Le plaisir de chanter)
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