Michou d'Auber (2007)
Country: FR
Technical: col 124m
Director: Thomas Gilou
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Amalric
Synopsis:
Le Berry, 1960: an Algerian boy is placed with foster parents, of whom the wife conceals his racial provenance because her husband is a former soldier.
Review:
Overstretched, sentimental star drama, in which Depardieu is asked to do little except play an unreconstructed, straight-shooting, loveable giant-cum-middle-aged crisis sufferer - a feat that barely causes him to break a sweat. The subject matter of a country enduring the trauma of the loss of a colony, with all the divisions that entailed, is sketched usefully enough but has been handled more interestingly in other films.
Country: FR
Technical: col 124m
Director: Thomas Gilou
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Amalric
Synopsis:
Le Berry, 1960: an Algerian boy is placed with foster parents, of whom the wife conceals his racial provenance because her husband is a former soldier.
Review:
Overstretched, sentimental star drama, in which Depardieu is asked to do little except play an unreconstructed, straight-shooting, loveable giant-cum-middle-aged crisis sufferer - a feat that barely causes him to break a sweat. The subject matter of a country enduring the trauma of the loss of a colony, with all the divisions that entailed, is sketched usefully enough but has been handled more interestingly in other films.
Country: FR
Technical: col 124m
Director: Thomas Gilou
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Mathieu Amalric
Synopsis:
Le Berry, 1960: an Algerian boy is placed with foster parents, of whom the wife conceals his racial provenance because her husband is a former soldier.
Review:
Overstretched, sentimental star drama, in which Depardieu is asked to do little except play an unreconstructed, straight-shooting, loveable giant-cum-middle-aged crisis sufferer - a feat that barely causes him to break a sweat. The subject matter of a country enduring the trauma of the loss of a colony, with all the divisions that entailed, is sketched usefully enough but has been handled more interestingly in other films.