Le Fils du Français
1999 Comedy / Adventure
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Summary
Since the death of his mother, nine-year-old Benjamin finds himself
tossed like a pillow between his two grand-mothers, Anne and Suzanne,
who cannot stand each other. Meanwhile, Benjamin’s father
Christian is busy making his fortune in South America. One day,
Benjamin is delighted when he receives an invitation from his father to
stay with him in Brazil, accompanied by his two battling
grandmothers. When they arrive at Christian’s house in Brazil, it
is deserted. It is at this point that Benjamin reveals that on
the day before their departure, his father rang to cancel the visit...
Review
The casting of two French cinema divas – Fanny Ardant and Josiane
Balasko – is not enough to save this ill-conceived and poorly executed
mishmash of comédie burlesque and action-thriller. The
refined Ardant looks horribly out of place in this kind of juvenile
exploit in which Balasko is reduced to reprising yet again her highly
caricatured display of working class femininity at its most
vulgar. Gérard Lauzier’s direction is poor, but his
biggest offence is his rambling, cliché-sodden screenplay.
This film is nothing more than a pale imitation of those popular French
comedy adventure films of the ’70s and ’80s, such as La
Chèvre.
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