A school bus driver who abandoned his wife and child 20 years earlier registers incognito for his daughter’s dance class in the hope of reconnecting with her.
Posted at 12:30 p.m.
Strongly associated in France with the character he played in the film series Campinga trilogy by Fabien Onteniente having been a huge success across the Atlantic (much less in our lands), Franck Dubosc has chosen to modulate a different tone this time. rumba lifehis second feature film as screenwriter and director (four years after Everybody stand up), indeed ventures more into emotion, thanks to a dramatic comedy where the comedian has not given himself the obligation to make people laugh at all costs, but rather to lead the spectator between smiles and tears.
In this regard, he does quite well. Franck Dubosc slips into the skin of Tony, a mature man, obsessed with America, who will never know anything other than the deep France from which he comes and the era in which he seems to be frozen. Thus emerges the portrait of a fifty-year-old whose convictions will still be a little shaken up after a heart attack.
Without reinventing anything, the one whose notoriety in Quebec is mainly due to his performances on stage offers a nice story, sometimes sprinkled with great ideas. We will savor the unexpected presence of Michel Houellebecq in the role of a cardiologist, just as much as that of Marie-Philomène Nga as a benevolent neighbor teaching Tony the rudiments of Congolese rumba. Jean-Pierre Darroussin also performs in the role of a friend uncertain of his orientation, and Louna Espinosa is very credible in that of the still unknown girl.
The story bathed in a melancholic atmosphere, the emotion sometimes seems a little forced, but the exercise is undeniably sincere.
Drama
rumba life
Frank Dubosc
With Franck Dubosc, Louna Espinosa and Jean-Pierre Darroussin
1:43 a.m.