For the first time of my life I went to a sneak preview and I was full of great expectations, but unfortunately everything I got was Jugnot's "Boudu".
The plot is fast told, Jugnot plays a bourgeois and narrow-minded art dealer, who saves a homeless (crankily played by Depardieu) from drowning and generously lets him spend one night at his home. In return Depardieu turns Jugnot's whole life totally upside down. At first everybody in the small french town is disgusted by Boudu's habits, but the better the people get to know him, the more Boudu changes everyone's life in a positive way.
"Boudu" is above all or even solely appropriate for confirmed Depardieu- or French-Comedy-Fans.
Depardieu perfectly fits the role of "Boudu", playing Boudu's rude and plump character gave him visible pleasure.
But the comparatively trivial plot and the inevitable vulgar jokes (f.ex. Depardieu's white and hairy butt, curse or beat-jokes) tire the spectator already after a short period. The bettering of the the people's lives due to Boudu's presence as well as the questionable socio-critical ending are very unrealistic. Why Jugnot's wife and his cute assistant are attracted to a disgusting homeless like Boudu and even sleep with him is as shady as the fact that Jugnot even forgives him and says he loves him, after he finds out, that Boudu has impregnated his wife.
The film lacks above all originality,(for it is a remake of the 1932 Renoir-Classic "Boudu saved from downing").
It is definitely an film, nobody needs, except those, who cannot get enough of Gerard Depardieu.
The plot is fast told, Jugnot plays a bourgeois and narrow-minded art dealer, who saves a homeless (crankily played by Depardieu) from drowning and generously lets him spend one night at his home. In return Depardieu turns Jugnot's whole life totally upside down. At first everybody in the small french town is disgusted by Boudu's habits, but the better the people get to know him, the more Boudu changes everyone's life in a positive way.
"Boudu" is above all or even solely appropriate for confirmed Depardieu- or French-Comedy-Fans.
Depardieu perfectly fits the role of "Boudu", playing Boudu's rude and plump character gave him visible pleasure.
But the comparatively trivial plot and the inevitable vulgar jokes (f.ex. Depardieu's white and hairy butt, curse or beat-jokes) tire the spectator already after a short period. The bettering of the the people's lives due to Boudu's presence as well as the questionable socio-critical ending are very unrealistic. Why Jugnot's wife and his cute assistant are attracted to a disgusting homeless like Boudu and even sleep with him is as shady as the fact that Jugnot even forgives him and says he loves him, after he finds out, that Boudu has impregnated his wife.
The film lacks above all originality,(for it is a remake of the 1932 Renoir-Classic "Boudu saved from downing").
It is definitely an film, nobody needs, except those, who cannot get enough of Gerard Depardieu.