SYNOPSICS
Louise-Michel (2008) is a French movie. Benoît Delépine,Gustave Kervern has directed this movie. Yolande Moreau,Bouli Lanners,Benoît Poelvoorde,Albert Dupontel are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2008. Louise-Michel (2008) is considered one of the best Comedy movie in India and around the world.
What to do when the workers of a factory have been laid off overnight? Louise has an original idea: why not pool the compensation money to ... hire a hit man and to liquidate the boss? Motion accepted so Louise goes in search of the gem they need and unfortunately comes across Michel, a stinky security specialist. Michel, who is busted, gladly accepts the deal but proves so inept that he sub-contracts the job to improbable novices. Moreover, as the factory was a mere branch of a multinational company, it is no bed of roses to find the one who actually made the decision to outsource its activities. But Louise will not give up so easily.
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'Eat the Rich' in French - tough, funny, weird, a bit too much
Just how strange are Belgians? For some reason, this country's film makers are unmatched in creating extremely weird or dysfunctional character pieces like 'Aaltra' (same director as this one), 'Ex-Drummer', 'L'Iceberg' or 'Man bites Dog'. If you liked those, you'll love this. 'Louise-Michel' is a cheap-looking movie which is drifting away from its subject matter in an entertaining, if confusing way. The story is quite straightforward: ex-convict overweight lady with a surprise hires hapless wannabe security guard to off her boss after her company is shut down. The problem: the boss isn't really the boss, and pretty hard to identify... Nobody here is much of a hero or sympathetic, but the basic idea is just plain wonderful: sticking the blame for economic misery is pretty hard when the economy is global. Naming the two main characters after French anarchist Louise Michel (as evident by a quote of hers in the end) is another funny little idea. The problem - if it is one - may be that there are so many quirky little details in this film that the story becomes obscure. You'll find crematory humor (maybe a film first), 9/11 conspiracy theory, gender confusion, a short painful pun on illegal immigration, abuse of terminally ill people with a final twist, but also absolutely divine moments like the difficulty of shooting a dog, how to use a briefcase as a hare-trap, or locating a company that only exists as a letter box. All in all a nice little film which could have used a bit of trimming, but certainly good for a bag of sarcastic laughs.
A top-class, can't miss, refreshing movie
Of course, this movie is not for the masses and most situations are often completely politically- incorrect. At the end of the day it's a dark comedy, a critic of the society, and a little marvel in terms of cinematographic quality. First the soundtrack is very good. Second the characters are socially off-track, abnormal, and as the movie progresses more and more mystery arise around their past. Both main characters are well played and offer, at moments, hilarious performance. The theater that I saw this in Montreal was often filled with laughs. A sadistic, cynical tale around hope in lower classes of society and fantasy to reach happiness in this world.
Dark and twisted comedy - as it should be
Louise has been working for a factory for many years. When the factory packs up overnight she and her former coworkers formulate a plan to spend the small amount of compensation money in a somewhat less than legal way - they want to hire a hit-man to finish off the boss. Set in a typical dark and dreary high-unemployment village this beginning of a story is a solid base for a very twisted comedy. It sets off at a good speed and keeps rolling forward and when it finally ends it does so with a fitting ending. Granted, some bits are high on clichés, but it gets away with that because some other bits are so good they count as counterweights for that. The choice of actors is great - especially the female lead character. She plays her character so well it almost comes across as a natural second skin. The male lead is great too and their combination works wonders, they just fit really well. 9 out of 10 oh-no-you-did-not-do-that moments
Deserves the tag Louise Michel
Yes, a really anarchist film, it attacks the financial sharks who are ruining our society. This is the story of two underdogs who are going to try to strike straight at the head of this mafia. It is really enjoyable as we wish so often that we could do that. The "red virgin" anarchist Louise Michel- one of the first women to wear trousers - is also underlined by the sexual ambiguity of the characters. And also a nice touch is added by using the music of Daniel Johnston a musician as weird as the heroes of this film. The acting is perfect and the dark humour is great. Obviously this is a sort of militant film and so this film has a message, but why shouldn't film makers express their opinions ? It makes a good change from the bland stuff that we are served everyday.
Put Thelma On Hold
With Thelma and Louise they were just teed off at Men, now, with Miche and Louise - although this time around it's Louise who gets top billing - there's an arguably greater cause for all the bloodshed, our old friend redundancy. Chances are this one was planned at least and maybe even written long before the current financial crisis but whichever way you slice it it couldn't be more timely. Yolande Moreau is virtually the only name in the cast and even she probably means little outside France; she's a fine actress yet about the only other leading role she got was one that she wrote for herself and, for good measure directed as well. Nine times out of ten she's playing for laughs and/or warmth but this time she is able to get her teeth into something with more gravitas and does so superbly. To put it simply she's just another worker in a factory that closes literally overnight - the workers turn up one morning and the place is bare. No one can figure out what to do until Louise has a brainwave; kill the boss. That's it but as I keep saying it's all in the wrists and Yolande's are among the best in the business.