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Samba (2014)

Comedy | 118 minutes
3,29 452 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 118 minuten

Country: France

Directed by: Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano

Stars: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tahar Rahim

IMDb score: 6,7 (17.866)

Releasedate: 15 October 2014

Samba plot

"Sometimes those with nothing have the most to lose."

Samba is a Senegalese man who has lived in France for ten years and lives from bad side jobs. Alice, a civil servant, suffers from a burnout. While Samba tries various ways to obtain a residence permit, Alice tries to volunteer with a volunteer organization that supports people without a residence permit or status. They both want to get out of their precarious situation, until one day their path crosses.

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BBarbie

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I have been left with ambivalent feelings about this renewed collaboration between Nakache and Toledano and Omar Sy. On the one hand it is an often funny feel-good movie, but on the other hand I find the problem of illegal immigrants too poignant to treat it so lightly. I can't imagine what it means to you to have to live as invisibly as possible on the margins of society day and night.

It's clear that the directors wanted to build on Sy's unprecedented success in Intouchables. In that film, François Cluzet as a handicapped but cheerful aristocrat formed the counterpart to the pranks of Omar Sy, in this film the director opts for that role in the character of Charlotte Gainsbourg for a barren, vacillating bureaucrat on the edge of a nervous breakdown. At the same time, Sy's role is much less funny than in the previous film, although the scene in which Samba warns the flying plane to stop is absolutely precious. It is mainly his “buddy” Tahar Rahim, who now has to provide the necessary ventilation.
I am not entirely happy with these choices. In my opinion, it creates an unbalanced and somewhat forced whole. This may also be because —as I noted earlier— humor and the seriousness of the problem do not go well together in my opinion.
Nevertheless, it is an entertaining film that can make you think. Me anyway.

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blurp194

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Apparently I'm the only one I haven't seen Intouchables. That has a huge advantage in this case - I went into the film without that expectation, and that turns out quite nicely. It may all be a bit obvious and light-hearted, but the dark edge is not so hidden.

Sy and Gainsbourg are also a nice couple together and that puts the film just a little above the umpteenth misery-with-refugee film. An important subject perhaps, but the more usual sad and negative approach does not always result in a decent film.

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james_cameron

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Of course very difficult to follow up on a mega hit like Intouchables; directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano do not succeed in stepping completely out of the shadow of that film. It also doesn't help that they have attracted the same protagonist and composer again. Both do a good job by the way. Omar Sy, who had to gain a lot of weight for this role, is disarming and sympathetic and the soundtrack by Ludovici Einaudi is again very beautiful. The problem lies with the plot, which doesn't really get off the ground and gets stuck in good intentions. Nevertheless, there are many beautiful and fun moments in an otherwise very entertaining film, with an excellent cast.

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