Naked Normandy: Not in the Hair (Review)
Philippe Le Guay signs a slightly lazy feel-good movie with François Cluzet on rails.
On this public holiday, France 3 is banking on Normandy naked, with François Cluzet. Here is our review of Philippe Le Guay’s film.
A devastated rural village. Wouldn’t the arrival of a famous Anglo-Saxon photographer, determined to strip the population naked in a field, shed timely light on the situation of the peasant world? Doesn’t this pitch remind you of something? Philippe Le Guay celebrates 20 years and dust of The Full Monty (released October 22, 1997) with this feel-good movie good-natured that he takes towards French character comedy. François Cluzet, in Victor Lanoux mode (the friendly complainer near you), plays a strong-willed mayor confronted with the moods of the star photographer played by a Toby Jones in vacation mode, who looks as lost as his character in the middle the fields. Around them, a gallery of archetypal characters shouts…
François Cluzet, the savior?
The reference to The Full Monty is therefore obvious (even in the poster which shows the hero in the foreground and the supporting roles behind…) and does not really play in favor of Normandy naked mainly due to too great a disparity between the protagonists. Here, only the mayor and a young man returning home (Arthur Dupont) benefit from consistent narrative arcs while the other characters are reduced to lazy, even idiotic caricatures (like this Parisian bobo in need of nature played by François-Xavier Of house). The sympathy expressed by François Cluzet, in a register close to that which he had in Country doctoris a necessary but not sufficient guarantee.
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