Welcome to a contemporary offering of French National cinema. Bresson would be turning in his grave. France's highest grossing film of all time for the opening week is a film where the boom is visable in 75% of the shots. A film whose comedic premise relies entirely on the notion that all people in the north of France are simple, and kinda talk funny.
The English subtitles try to reflect this funny pronunciation but it is a lost cause really. That it has a huge appeal in France is perplexing enough, that it made it to my local multiplex in the UK staggering.
In The Truman Show (1998) and more recently Goodbye Lenin (2003) fake environments are used to illustrate the goodness of humanity. There is a hierarchy of knowledge that we as an audience are privilegded to. This setup is used once again here to disastrous effects when Philippe (Kad Merad) must portray his awful experiences up north in Bergues when in reality he's having a whale of a time.
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