Rock'n Roll

Guillaume Canet plays a version of himself in this French comedy: a successful actor and director who is thrown off balance when a much younger co-star tells him he no longer counts as cool and that his name does not draw audiences the way it once did. The remark lands hard on a man in his early forties who has settled into family life with Marion Cotillard, their child, a country house and horses. Convinced he has become conventional and unexciting, he sets out to reinvent himself and win back the image he has lost, with his wife drawn into his efforts. The film is built around Canet and Cotillard appearing as themselves, alongside Gilles Lellouche, Philippe Lefebvre, Camille Rowe and Kev Adams in self-referential roles.

Rock'n Roll was released in February 2017, running 123 minutes. Canet directed it, the fourth feature in his filmography after Tell No One, Little White Lies and Blood Ties, and wrote the screenplay with Philippe Lefebvre and Rodolphe Lauga; Alain Attal produced it for M6 Films, Pathé and Les Productions du Trésor.

Made for a budget of around 18 million dollars, it took roughly 10 million dollars worldwide, a return well below its cost. Audiences have been mixed: it holds 6.1 out of 10 on IMDb from about 5,200 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5.2 out of 10 from some 774 votes.