What is A Man in a Hurry worth, with Fabrice Luchini and Leila Bekhti? (critical)
The talkative actor loses the use of speech in this drama by Hervé Mimran (co-creator of All That Shines with Géraldine Nakache).
Alain is a respected businessman and a brilliant speaker. He’s chasing time. In his life there is no room for leisure or family. One day, he suffered a stroke which stopped him in his tracks and caused profound speech and memory problems. His rehabilitation is taken care of by Jeanne, a young speech therapist. Through work and patience, Jeanne and Alain will learn to know each other and each, in their own way, will finally try to rebuild themselves and take the time to live.
A man in a hurry is broadcast this Sunday on France 2. When it was released at the end of 2018, the editorial staff of First had enjoyed the show Fabrice Luchini, necessarily less eloquent than usual, but without being fully enthusiastic about this project either. Here is our review, while waiting to see it again on television.
There is something of a mise en abyme in entrusting Fabrice Luchini, master of eloquence and witticism, with the role of a businessman losing the correct use of the language as a result. of a stroke. Prevented, the actor stammers, speaks in verlan (a habit of his, certainly), replaces one word with another (preferably crude, it’s more comical)…
The result is initially effective but the argument ends up going in circles, even irritating – the abuse of verlan is bad for the spectator’s health. There remains the relationship, in mode “Untouchables” (I tame you, you tame me), between Luchini and Leïla Bekhti, his slightly depressed speech therapist, who provides the film with some lovely moments of emotion. We don’t remain speechless either.
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