THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – WHY NOT
Here is a film less appalling than its trailer, Segpas, by Ali Boughéraba and Hakim Boughéraba, released in theaters on Wednesday April 20. The observation, abrupt, is essential after discovering this comedy adapted from the successful web series, which makes fun of middle school students in difficulty – educated in Segpa, section of general and professional education adapted. We would almost wonder if the said trailer – a concentrate of supposedly funny, but above all stupid and vulgar gags – was not intended to create controversy to talk about the film, which is moreover co-produced by Cyril Hanouna . Watching the teaser, many teachers were dizzy.
In fact, “The Segpa” looks like yet another version of the “Sub-gifted” – Claude Zidi’s comedy, released in 1980 – with an added touch of violence
In the facts, Segpas looks like yet another version of Under-gifted – the comedy by Claude Zidi, released in 1980 – with an additional zest of violence and a certain complacency with regard to the era – thus, at the high school journalism club, the intox dethroned the info, for the greatest pleasure of teachers, who rediscover their students more motivated than ever. Of course, the authors of the film will have fun saying that they are only forcing the line of reality. One should then consider Segpas as a satire of society.
The directors keep provoking, while stepping aside and shifting their gaze, as if they wanted to share their analysis with us: it’s not the film that presents the students in Segpa as nice morons, it’s It is the faculty (or the system) that thinks so and “ghettoizes” these young people. “Do your best, suck!” »launches (in essence) a professor, the day of the examination of the patent.
Humiliating training
We find the actors of the web series (Ichem Bougheraba, Walid Ben Amar… who keep their first names in the film), the day of the start of the school year. The turbulent students, in third class, aim to pass the patent at the end of the year, but are not long in being expelled from college. Here they land in an upscale establishment (a place above ground, escaping all realism), the headmaster, a caricature of a cynical man, betting on the aid for diversity that he will thus be able to harvest from the region.
The staging is not offbeat enough to make you believe you are in a Tarantino
Ichem and his buddies open wide-eyed as they discover the glittering campus, populated by dreamlike creatures. Ichem finds there a young girl he had approached on the beach – Emma Smet, daughter of David Hallyday and Estelle Lefébure, who is making her film debut. The love affair that seems impossible – she is rich, he is poor – follows its predictable course, the scenario still reserving some twists. Finally, the young people of the Segpa will show what they are capable of and get their diploma at the cost of an almost punitive and humiliating training, inflicted by a teacher who is more like a mercenary than a teacher.
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