Launched in January at the Sundance Festival, Monia Chokri’s second feature film as a director hits theaters in France this Wednesday. Baby sittera film adaptation of the eponymous play by Catherine Léger, received a generally favorable reception from critics in France.
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Starring Patrick Hivon, Monia Chokri, Nadia Tereszkiewcz, Steve Laplante and Hubert Proulx, the story is built around a sexist joke made on TV by an uneventful engineer during a sporting event, which will send into a spin his existence.
Among the more favorable reviews, let us point out that of The Obs : ” It’s the Theorem from the #metoo era, signed by the spiritual daughter of John Waters and the Coen brothers. With his approach to machismo and self-righteousness that is both sarcastic and subtle, his outrageous comedy and his overexcited style, somewhere between comics, fairy tales and giallo, the second film by actress-director Monia Chokri is so modern that it should age better than the divisions it mocks and risks causing. »
On the side of the newspaper The Parisianwe indicate that Baby sitter “looks like nothing and it can please everyone, so devoid of any prejudice is his look”, and the Paris Match explains that we “find there the Chokri style: poetry, humor and punchlines well-knit”. In the magazine Firstwe also rent this new feature film by the Quebec filmmaker, offered three years later My brother’s wife, which had won a favorite prize in the Un certain regard section at the Cannes Film Festival. “Monia Chokri signs a funny inventory of new relationships between men and women, but armed with the conviction, ultimately not so common as that, that comedies of manners are not condemned to be shapeless and ugly things to watch”, emphasizes First.
Critical unanimity being virtually impossible in France, there are also some hiccups in the reference press. Yes The world, Telerama and The cinema notebooks highlight its qualities, the film finds little favor in the eyes of the critic of the Figaro “Praiseable but painful to endure…”. The newspaper Release there goes for its part a rather violent charge: “The result is a lint of painted casting”, can we read in particular.
The Quebec public will have to wait a moment to judge for themselves. Baby sitter will be released in our lands on June 3.