2020 · comedy · music
Delete History
Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern1h 50m2020
In a provincial suburb, three neighbours come to terms with the consequences of the new world of social media. Marie, who lives off her husband’s family allowance, is afraid of losing her son’s respect because of a sex tape. Bertrand can’t say no to advertising calls and is fighting to protect his daughter, who is being bullied online. Christine, after losing everything because of her addiction to TV series, wonders why her rating as an Uber driver is not taking off. These three lone fighters are incapable of finding a solution to their problems on their own — until they join forces to declare war on the tech giants.
Our read: Delete History (2020) reads as a warm, steady, inventive comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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