2013 · comedy · political
Vive la France
Directed by Michaël Youn1h 37m2013
Muzafar and Feruz are two easy going shepherds from Taboulistan, a tiny country in Asia that is unknown to the rest of the world. To alert the world to his country’s existence, the son of Taboulistan’s president decides to instigate a program of publicity terrorism. To that end, he recruits our two naive shepherds, their mission: to destroy the Eiffel Tower! But the France that Muzafar and Feruz discover is far from what they had expected...
Our read: Vive la France (2013) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · political entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / political, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- funny
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