A globetrotting photographer tries to reconcile with his four daughters from four different wives.

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Jacques Kaminsky has spent his life traveling and photographing the world and is closer to his camera that to his four daughters by four different wives. When he decides to buy property in the Alps in hopes of reconciling with them, he realizes his daughters have made their own lives without him. In hopes of reuniting them, Frédérique, a friend of Jacques’, invents a dramatic lie...

On paper, Salaud, on t'aime has no charm at all: Johnny Hallyday and Eddie Mitchell, singing stars and actors verging on the has-been, co-star with Sandrine Bonnaire in a family drama set in a chalet in the Alps. The big surprise is that it works! Mainly thanks to the fact that Claude Lelouch refuses to yield to easy family reunion clichés: instead of big arguments, he prefers to focus on the in-depth distress of his characters, who unwillingly find themselves in a tragic conflict. In the last part, the plot gets lost in the red herrings of a bad thriller, but the heart of this great and solid “bastard” remains intact.