LIS IN LOVE, THE ARAB AND THE WALKER
Type: surreal-sociological comedy
Director: Alain Guiraudie. With Jean-Charles Clichet, Noémie Lvovsky, Ilies Kadri, Michel Masiero, Doria Tiller, Renaud Rutten, Philippe Fretun
A tragicomic moment from Alain Guiraudie’s film.
The Italian title would like to help get into the spirit of the film (instead of the original Viens je t’emmène“Come, I’ll bring you”), but runs the risk of having the opposite effect and reducing the film to a kind of joke like: there was an Italian, an Englishman and a German… Too bad, because the film by Alain Guiraudie (a French cinema outsider) is very funny, but it’s not a joke at all.
Indeed, recounting the encounters between the protagonist (“the lover” of the title, a solitary expert in computer languages) with a not very young streetwalker and a young Arab homeless, but also with colorful roommates, a jealous husband, a ‘uninhibited friend and a young intern, Guiraudie confronts us with all the anxieties that seem to suffocate Francestarting with the fear of terrorists (there is also a jihadist attack that interrupts an enthralling sex scene at the climax), to then disassemble or mock them with a reversal that uses irony with both hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rivMBRaL8-I
And in the end, certain Rohmerian heroes come to mind, with their seemingly superficial wandering and instead capable of dismantling too many clichés that prevent us from living more lightly.
For those who want to be surprised by an extravagant comedy.
iO Woman © REPRODUCTION RESERVED