2016 · comedy
Struggle for Life
Directed by Antonin Peretjatko1h 39m2016
Marc Châtaigne, an intern at the Ministry of Standards, is sent to French Guiana to implement European construction standards at Guyaneige: the first Amazonian ski slope, intended to boost tourism in French Guiana. There, he meets Tarzan, an attractive intern at the National Forestry Office, with whom he’ll get lost on a journey through the jungle that will take him far, far away…
Our read: Struggle for Life (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
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