2023 · comedy · political
A Difficult Year
Directed by Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano2h 0m2023
Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.
Our read: A Difficult Year (2023) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · political entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / political, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
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