The guy invents puzzles and lives alone an isolated in a quiet Parisian apartment. The girl is an accomplished pianist who decides to live alone to prepare herself for a big competition. And so she moves in next door to the guy, with whom she shares a very thin wall that forces them to fill each other in on their daily lives. Usually very good at getting new tenants to move out again, this time the guy has met his match as the girl slowly gets him to begin accepting his fate…

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A very good idea does not make a very good movie, as again proved by this debut by Clovis Cornillac. Although its does have some good qualities, Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément never matches up to its excellent starting point, which has the potential to blow the dust off the romcom genrre. What kills it is dialogue that is often crass and charmless, an unconvincing performance by Mélanie Bernier, and a tone that tries to be screwball but doesn’t make it. But although its has some serious weaknesses, especially in its simplistic ending, its hard not to appreciate Clovis Cornillac’s staging, which is reminiscent of the wonderful Parisian universe previously inhabited by Amélie Poulain.