Thursday 21 December 2017

Samba (2014 Oliver Nakache, Eric Toledano & scr)

Nakache and Toledano's follow-up to Intouchable (which has been remade for the US as The Upside) is about an illegal worker Omar Sy's tribulations and relationship with slightly unstable social worker Charlotte Gainsbourg. Fellow immigrants are Tahar Rahim (The Serpent, The Mauritanian) and Issaka Sawadogo, Yongar Fall is the uncle, and Izia Higelin, Helene Vincent and Christiane Millet are follow workers.

It's good, unusual, often very funny (Sy running for 'his plane') and politically astute.

Their latest film Le Sens de la Fete / C'est la Vie is about a wedding party coming together in seventeenth century France.



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