Name: Mr. Stein Goes Online
Genre: Comedy, Romance, World Cinema
Released: 2018
Duration: T1H41M
Cast: Pierre Richard, Yaniss Lespert, Fanny Valette, Stéphane Bissot, Stéphanie Crayencour

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Pierre Richard (The Fugitives), one of France’s supreme elder farceurs, stars in Stéphane Robelin's (All Together) modern take on the Cyrano de Bergerac story.

"Pierre is a retired widower who hasn’t left his house for two years. On the insistence of his daughter, he learns how to indulge in the delights of the Internet, thanks to some patience from a young man, Alex (Yaniss Lespert, What’s in a Name?), who is hired as Pierre’s computer tutor. On a dating site, Pierre meets the young and gorgeous ‘flora63’ (Fanny Valette, Little Jerusalem) who wants to meet him. But, given Pierre has used Alex’s head shot for his profile, he needs to convince Alex to take his place at the rendezvous." (Alliance Française)

2018Rating: M, Coarse language and sexualised imagery101 minsAustria, France, Belgium, GermanyFrench with English subtitles

ComedyRomanceWorld Cinema

All Reviews (6)

Director:: Stéphane Robelin ('All Together', 'Real Movie')
Writer:: Stéphane Robelin
Cast:: Pierre RichardYaniss LespertFanny ValetteStéphane BissotStéphanie CrayencourGustave KervernMacha MérilAnna Bederke

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Mr. Stein Goes Online / Reviews

Flicks, Luke Buckmaster

It will not surprise fans of Breaking Bad, or its spin-off series Better Call Saul, to be informed that actor Jonathan Banks – aka Mike, the hard-as-nails hitman and underworld problem solver – plays one creepy son of a bitch in Mudbound. In the Netflix-distributed feature film from African American director Dee Rees, his performance resonates in a bile-in-your-mouth kind of way, lending shuddersome gravitas to a dyed-in-the-wool racist circa rural Mississippi in the 1930s and 40s.

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Flicks, Tony Stamp

Despite sounding like an instructional video for aging boomers, Mr. Stein Goes Online is in fact a French farce — albeit one about an aging boomer.

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The Age

Stephane Robelin's Mr Stein Goes Online is Cyrano de Bergerac for the age of the internet, a traditional feelgood movie given a modern gloss. It's also a little discomforting, in ways that Robelin may not have entirely thought through.

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Sydney Morning Herald

A film that plays it safe, tying up loose ends and treating all its characters with forgiveness.

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Stuff

Recommended for those who like their comedy broad and their more mature cinematic characters brazen.

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New Zealand Herald

A burgeoning romance that feels emotionally hollow and is further let down by its clumsy ending.

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