Cours toujours (2000) User Reviews

Burying the foreskin

[jotix100 · 6/10 · 10 September 2009]

Certain religious rituals are too weird for persons alien to them. Such is the case of this story in which an infant is born. The parents being Jewish must have the baby boy circumcised, something akin to perhaps being baptized, in another religion. Jonas, an eager young musician, must do the deed. For that purpose, he wraps the part that has been cut from the baby's penis to be buried. This involves an all night adventure through Parisian streets at a speed of lightning because the rite is to be completed before midnight.

Dante Desarthe directed this comedy is not the disaster some of the comments submitted to this forum make out to be. We must confess our sole interest in the film was the fact that Emmanuelle Devos, one of France's most amazing actresses had a part in the movie. Alas, she has only a small role. Clement Sibony and Rona Hartner try to liven up things.

Don't waste your time

[groggo · 1/10 · 26 June 2007]

This irritating little one-trick pony of a film tries to pretend it's feature-length material, and even with ample padding it still falls flat.

I like French films (and European films in general), but this reminds me of the same schlock Adam Sandler, Jack Black, or (fill in your favourite Hollywood madcap here) could have stitched together in two weeks. Being wacky for the sake of being wacky, with no real substance or context (to say nothing of freshness) to bolster it, is not a formula for a winning flick. Similar kinds of nonsense comes out of LaLaLand every week -- sure-fire bankable stuff that's ultimately a sad waste of time, money and talent.

The lovely Emmanuelle Devos is wasted in this movie, which is concerned with a 23-year-old Jewish father who must bury his newborn son's foreskin within three days, which I guess is grounded in Jewish law. Or something. And don't you know, he faces all kinds of problems burying that severed head, so to speak.

Based on this flimsy thread of a sitcom plot, we're taken on an often boring ride for 1 1/2 hours, with twists so predictable that I was fast-forwarding. There's a silly subplot involving a man who feels he's been insulted so he sends three of his henchmen out to seek satisfaction. They, of course, do the Keystone Kops routine: you know, goofy guys who just can't do anything right.

Maybe you have to be Jewish to 'enjoy' this sprawl. I still have my foreskin, so perhaps I'm not sensitive enough.

Amiable comedy, including uniquely grotesque situations

[m_mckechneay · 9/10 · 5 November 2000]

A young father has to bury his baby-sons foreskin after circumcision, as tradition demands. On his strange mission a lot of trouble awaits him.

Lots of reflected irony concerning Jewry, brought forward in a kindhearted tone. The gangster-chase-subplot is unneccessary. But all in all a recommendation!

Marie Desgranges in a Jewish family.

[lionel.willoquet · 10 June 2001]

A young father, charged with burying the foreskin of his freshly circumcised son, as well as introducing him to the Jewish tradition, lives out many events not listed in Torah.

A fanciful and soft comedy. This track race is rather oiled well.