Albatros (2020)

It couldn't get any crazier: a "well-being and slimming spa" in a village where the most special event of the year is a competition for gluttony to the death.
A crazy comedy because although all the "patients" (and not just them) in the Albatross all have a past that makes them quite frustrated, traumatized, scarred and usually not sweethearts, this dramatic aspect (besides being too fat, divorce, feelings of guilt, etc...) in the film does not hit the viewer like a sledgehammer or that it makes you emotional. No, it is usually light-hearted, bizarre, somewhat exaggerated and actually not immediately presented as credible.
Thus a funny event that at times comes out nicely and in which all the actors actually pull their strings well. Give the compliments to Benny Claessens as brother Geoffrey and Isabelle van Hecke as Tine is also doing very well.
The dialogues fit perfectly into this and are often spicy.
Initially I thought a 3 will suffice, because it is actually not that deep, but it is homegrown, also carries typical aspects and often makes you laugh and to think that, for example, the French had to do something like this With François Cluzet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Frot and others, it is not inconceivable that they would speak of the film of the year. Just think of "Bienvenue...chez les Chi'tis".
So 3.5.

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Well acted. The people are delicately portrayed. catchy. I notice that an episode smolders with me for days to come.

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