son of a French and a Belgian, a Belgian national, currently residing in France, I admit I was curious about discovering the latest film Dany Boon , Nothing to declare. The idea is funny, two customs, one French and one Belgian forced to team up in a flying customs at the disappearance of European borders in 1993. The fascination of the French pseudo-comic for the Belgian has always intrigued me. It is above all the persistence of stereotypes and humor schoolboy jokes about the Belgians who calls me from childhood, especially when you consider that most French people have an overly fragmented in Belgium and said that a minority of Belgian suffers from a large complex of inferiority to their neighbor hexagon. I speak of a minority because it concerns only 40% of the population (the Walloons), the Flemish do not care solely of French. Car and Dany Boon is not supposed to ignore it, there has always been and it's even more true now, two Belgium. Need I remind you that Belgium has not yet managed to form a government so that elections were held 237 days ago!
The director has not wanted to do a history course, he limited his explanation to Leopold I, first king of the Belgians in 1831 who married second wife the daughter of Louis Philippe. A single sentence will be pronounced and unfortunate in Flemish on the duration of the film. By cons, we will be entitled to the hackneyed a fried once ', drafting Belgian accents that always end up looking like near and far focus Brussels forced deep and persistent stereotypes. The funny thing is without doubt the origin of French fries. Credible theories argue religiously she was born after the revolution under the bridges of the Seine. His story is that Boon Customs perfect excuse and a springboard for a series of gags and generally undignified located at the belt.
The scenario Nothing to declare is as flat as the terrain of Belgium, unfortunately there is not much to say. There is about a drug trafficking which from France to Belgium, which is also highly unlikely. Mathias Ducatel Boon who camps, the French customs, is in love with the sister of the Belgian customs Ruben Vandevoorde which is in turn interpreted by Poelvoorde, a type hateful, excessively racist, just like Walt Kowalski, a veteran of the Vietnam War to Gran Torino . Structure could not be more classic then two guys who hate each other and are forced to team up. Poelvoorde, whose performance is the sole interest of the film is particularly reassembled and spends his time yelling, he's in his expressions facial some magic and we will regret it starts this famous sabbatical as he announced that he is tired of all the folklore surrounding the promotional release of a film. And with nothing to declare , it was served. Dany Boon indeed a substantial budget for communication, even the Paris-Brussels Thalys has been decorated for the trouble. This is obviously a film more commercial than artistic. Boon wants repeat performance Sticks and that the expense of more basic concern for staging.
Most unfortunate in this film is not so much that most actors go completely off about them, especially Olivier Gourmet, rather ridiculous as a priest, Francois Damiens covering all ticks sketches of Francis' confuses and especially the actress Julie Bernard that plays like a quiche and without speaking French Cast only saved by Karin Viard . Not the most regrettable is the complete lack of realization. The images are of incredible ugliness, succession of close-ups where the cinematographer seems to have fallen asleep as the legions of fuzzy, there really is no aesthetical as if Boon relied on talent Poelvoorde asking the camera to him. It's heartbreaking because it will probably the only movie that many people will go see the movies this year and it has absolutely nothing to film, he is lazy and hopeless. It is based on an idea rickety and did not budge, never try to overtake. Moreover, it gives birth to a depressing moral failure on Europe and its integration fantasy. Worse he accepts the immutability of racism in its ability to move from one topic to another. And all this by making it the prerogative of the other precisely, the Belgian, "that is comfortable and relatively inelegant.
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