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Chinese Puzzle

2013 • 1h 57m •
Comedy Drama Romance
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★ 6.6/10
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Chinese Puzzle

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

Top Billed Cast

Romain Duris
Romain Duris
Xavier Rousseau
Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou
Martine
Cécile de France
Cécile de France
Isabelle
Kelly Reilly
Kelly Reilly
Wendy
Sandrine Holt
Sandrine Holt
Ju
Flore Bonaventura
Flore Bonaventura
Isabelle
Jochen Hägele
Jochen Hägele
les philosophes allemands
Benoît Jacquot
Benoît Jacquot
Xavier's Dad

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

A Andres Gomez Verified TMDB Critic
2016-01-22

This third part of the series started with "The Spanish Apartment" and "Russian Dolls" continues following the life of Xavier and his complications. The cast is the well known and very good from previous parts with the good additions of the children, which perform really well.

This part, although shows again the chaotic life of Xavier, feels, somehow more coherent and luminous, as if the pieces would be finally fitting. Maybe the best way of summarizing the series and the conclusion is with the conversation that Xavier and Martine have by the end of the film in which Martine tell Xavier how...

C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2024-04-14

"Xavier" (Roman Duris) is maybe not the most reliable of husbands, but I did feel a little sorry for him when wife "Wendy" (Kelly Reilly) decides that she wishes to relocate to the United States, and to take their two children with her. Bluntly, she doesn't really care whether he likes it or not. She's met a new man "John" (Peter Hermann) and is going regardless. Surprisingly for him, this really focusses his priories as he realises that he doesn't want to live without them, so he follows suit. He ends up living in New York's Chinatown where he has to try and sort out a job, accommodation and ...