A joyous, life-affirming film from the maker of the original French version of `Three Men and a Baby' (`Trois hommes et un couffin'), writer-director Coline Serreau. It's another `high concept' movie - a film whose plot can be expressed in a single sentence. After 'three swinging bachelors bring up baby girl', she has come up with 'high-flying executive falls in love with black office cleaner'. Serreau's Romeo, or rather Romauld, is the MD of a yoghurt company, played by Daniel Auteuil (who looks a dead ringer for Michael Douglas in 'Wall Street'). Juliette is a black office cleaner, played by stage actress Firmine Richard in her film début. Juliette would appear to be so far removed from Romauld on the social scale as to be virtually invisible. Yet when his life comes unstuck through industrial sabotage and insider trading, it is Juliette who comes to the rescue. 'Romauld et Juliette' is both an unexpected romance and a deftly-plotted comedy. It also finds time to make some pointed observations on questions of race, class and gender.


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