‘Jim’s Story’ Review: An Impassive Protagonist Weighs Down the Larrieu Brothers’ Sentimental French Melodrama

Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s latest film, “Jim’s Story,” doesn’t follow a Jim, but Aymeric (Karim Leklou). Rather, it is in following Aymeric’s story that the story of Jim unfolds. Which is to say, neither in title nor in its narrative structure does this French drama let its protagonist lead. This adaptation of Pierric Bailly’s […]