I really like Benoit as he has got the same talent to make me laugh and the same big heart as the ancestor, Louis De Funes. It's rather funny to see that the beginning of this movie has nearly a remake of Louis' famous scene and beyond, the whole movie is like a homage as it's the more meticulous duplication of the 70s (« the gold age for Louis ») that I have seen for a long time.
This movie was surely my first with Benoit and I discovered him in a strange way as i came back from a trainee-ship in Luxembourg in which i get in touch with the great Benelux : for a French like me, it was relaxing to be in such countries as it was speaking my tongue but everything, everyone was different : less anguished, less disdainful, more warmly, more open. And Benoit (as Cécile De France) has this little more bit of humanity than my fellows lacks. Thus, his (her) movies are always interesting for me but sometimes, they just reach the opposite frontier as they have poor french partners or does the french trend (wealthy family living in Paris !).
Here, except Garcia who as usual makes boring and useless fuss for everything, this is not the case and that's why it's a great movie : it's about ordinary people, living in small cities and having big dreams for their life. Cycling is surely not the best glamorous sport but it's the one fit for nostalgia (my grandparents and parents love to lose their summer afternoon watching the big circle). What's very original here is how the film balances smoothly between comedy and drama as Benoit is the perfect loser and that's why we love him so much !
This movie was surely my first with Benoit and I discovered him in a strange way as i came back from a trainee-ship in Luxembourg in which i get in touch with the great Benelux : for a French like me, it was relaxing to be in such countries as it was speaking my tongue but everything, everyone was different : less anguished, less disdainful, more warmly, more open. And Benoit (as Cécile De France) has this little more bit of humanity than my fellows lacks. Thus, his (her) movies are always interesting for me but sometimes, they just reach the opposite frontier as they have poor french partners or does the french trend (wealthy family living in Paris !).
Here, except Garcia who as usual makes boring and useless fuss for everything, this is not the case and that's why it's a great movie : it's about ordinary people, living in small cities and having big dreams for their life. Cycling is surely not the best glamorous sport but it's the one fit for nostalgia (my grandparents and parents love to lose their summer afternoon watching the big circle). What's very original here is how the film balances smoothly between comedy and drama as Benoit is the perfect loser and that's why we love him so much !