Movies like Nuit d'ivresse

This is a late-night French buddy comedy that trades tidy plot for the chemistry of two very different people undoing themselves across the city. The setup is plainly delivered in the source: a television presenter misses the train bringing his soap-star fiancée, runs into an ex-con, and the two move through Paris getting progressively drunk while arguing, breaking up and chasing more alcohol. That factual spine lets the film become an odd-couple-journey, one built on missed-connection beats and improvisational-comedy rhythms rather than intricate plotting. The tone mixes boulevard-style farce with a rueful undercurrent: public persona and private failure slide past each other in quick exchanges and physical-comedy set pieces. Camera movement and editing choices favor mobility and immediacy, which supports the handheld brisk staging that keeps scenes feeling lived-in rather than staged. Viewed through a French comédie de mœurs lens, the picture reads as a sketch of masculinity in performance — two men testing the limits of partnership while their arguments flip between comic banter and sharper resentment. The strengths are modest but clear: committed performances that anchor the nocturnal-roaming and a comic pacing that often feels earned rather than forced. What stays after the last scene is less a resolved story than a bittersweet note about companionship and the costs of spectacle; the film lingers as a warm, slightly muted portrait of two people finding one another only by losing what they thought they had.