THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – WHY NOT
From Welcome to the Ch’tis (2008, twenty million admissions), Dany Boon is a man who is considered in French cinema. Jérôme Seydoux, manitou of the Pathé house, the first. On the strength of a capital of popular love which is undeniable, Boon, who no longer takes the trouble to show his films in advance to a press that could argue – turns between eight million admissions in the years of win (Nothing to declare2011) and four million five hundred thousand entries at the low of the low of the depression (crazy raid2017).
It would be difficult, in fact, to renew the praise that deserved Welcome to the Ch’tis, whose zaniness and whimsicality made it possible to consider with amenity the benign kindness inherent in Boonian humor. The evolution of the work quickly made the incongruous element disappear, or at the very least removed all its roughness, in favor of a childish bewilderment which considerably dampens the comic virtue of Dany Boon’s films. Worse, which reveals, for huge budgets, the absence of ambition and aesthetic utilitarianism: advertising ugliness of the sets, laziness of the framing, flatness of the dialogues, robotization of the staging (shot-reverse shot, eight seconds per plan…).
A nymphomaniac friend
After The Cht’ite family (2018), who found at least a certain pugnacity in the motif of social shame, this weakening is unfortunately once again at work in life for real. Consider the story of Tridan Lagache (Dany Boon), 50, son of two Club Med facilitators living permanently in Mexico, who has never known anything in his life other than the Club. Finally wanting to tear himself away from this life of eternal bliss, dreaming of reconnecting with Violette, a forty-year-old vacation love, he extorts from his mother the keys to a Parisian apartment belonging to his deceased father, and flies away for the first time in his life for the capital.
Two lines will overlap. One, atmospheric, confronts the happy imbecile trapped in the “glorious thirty” with the savagery of contemporary Parisian mores. The other, dramatic, reveals to him the existence of a resentful half-brother (Kad Merad, old companion) occupying the apartment of the father who abandoned him at birth, and of whom he does not really hear. separate. Dreaming of sending his brother back to Mexico, he asks a nymphomaniac friend (Charlotte Gainsbourg), whom he met through the Internet, to make Tridan believe that she is the Violette he is looking for, and to make him forget the most his romantic fad as soon as possible. Nothing will go as planned, that is, everything will go as planned.
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