From the director of the breakout hit The Intouchables (2011), a migrant to France (Omar Sy) fights to stay in his adopted country with the help of a rookie immigration worker (Charlotte Gainsbourg).
"Samba Cissé (Sy) is a migrant to France from Mali. Washing dishes in the back kitchen of a fancy hotel is hardly his European dream, but it gets worse when a bureaucratic slip-up lands him in detention. There he meets Alice (Gainsbourg), an immigration worker new to the job and unused to the hard realities of life on France's bottom rung. When Samba is released but slapped with an order to leave France, Alice begins to let her professional role bleed into her personal life." (Toronto International Film Festival)
It’s called Samba, but it’s not about Brazilian music. It’s co-directed by Nakache and Toledano, but it’s not a patch on their last movie, The Intouchables. It’s marketed as a rom-com, but whilst there’s plenty of rom, the com is barely evident.
Full reviewThe delightful push-pull pairing of Omar Sy and Charlotte Gainsbourg makes this bittersweet comi-drama about connections a rich and engaging experience
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The film has unusual grace notes and an unpredictable, angular construction, by which I mean that it is odd but good.
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A well-meaning and occasionally joyous film that is ultimately too scattershot in its format and tone to really work.
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Despite its urgent and topical subject matter, this story comes cloaked in charm and humour.
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