his banal texting with an old flame, and badgers everyone with endless calls for advice and analysis. Gilles Lellouche ( Mesrine: Killer Instinct ) cheated on his girlfriend, got dumped, and is lying about it while fretting over how to get her back. And Marion Cotillard is finding that casual sex with active avoidance of emotional connection has multiple downsides. As each of these blinkered characters goes through a crisis period, they alternate yelling, crying, and tense interludes with sloppy partying, in ways that suggest none of them care as much about their friends and families as they do about their mild, middle-aged hedonism. Meanwhile, another member of the group ( The Artist 's Jean Dujardin) has been badly injured in a coke-and-booze-fueled accident. Their decision to leave him in the hospital and take their planned vacation drives some of the film's drama, but establishes them early as selfish, self-justifying, and petty -- perhaps in an understandable way, but to a degree that hugely undermines the film's attempts to humanize them and make their problems relatable. Little White Lies has been called a French take on The Big Chill , due to the all-star cast, the coming-of-middle-age themes, and the striking soundtrack, which relies heavily on English-language classics: The Band, Gladys Knight, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Isley Brothers, and much more. But it also recalls The Big Chill in its trumped-up melodrama among people whose problems either aren't that weighty, or are unconvincingly overwritten. While the