Our Day Will Come
2010 ‘Notre jour viendra’ Directed by Romain Gavras
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Redheaded teen Remy (Olivier Barthelemy) is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counsellor, Patrick (Vincent Cassel), also a redhead. Patrick looks upon Remy’s sullen insolence with both sympathy and disdain and decides to toughen him up. The two redheads realize that they are out of place in twenty-first century France. They have no country, no people and no army. Together they plot to take on the world in a hallucinatory quest for a land of imagined freedom.
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Redheads against the world on a road trip. Vincent Cassel turning in to one of my favorite actors.
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An us-against-the-world road trip fantasy/adventure that finds two redheads lashing out against the society they feel has persecuted them. Beautifully directed by Romain Gavras with great performances by Vincent Cassel and Olivier Barthelemy. The last twenty minutes brought to mind the maniacal final act of Werner Herzog's Stroszek. Absolutely love the final image in this film (although it doesn't top Herzog's dancing chicken).
The film has a companion piece in Gavras' M.I.A. video 'Born Free', which seems to capture the excessively violent, hyper-oppressive society that Our Day Will Come's main characters feel they're trapped within. NIIICCEEEE.
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Vincent Cassel just about saves this road trip movie to make it worth a watch,but only just.
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Great weird road movie with convincing leads. Two redheads against the world trying to reach Ireland hoping they won't attract attention there. But it's not the color of their hair which makes them outcasts.
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Promising start and a rewarding performance from Cazzel but overall it lost my interest, there is something in these two characters but not coming off well here
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Had been hoping for a film that fellow Gingers could champion, unfortunately it's a bit muddled and comes off as a rather drawn out music video from music video director Romain Gavras.
Also - casting two main leads who clearly aren't ginger to play violently indignant gingermen is not really the most compelling of ploys - anyone would think ACTUAL Gingers were too harrowing for the camera to tolerate.
So, ultimately, pretty looking but hollow and painted red.
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Redheads against the world on a road trip. Vincent Cassel turning in to one of my favorite actors.
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didn't make it all the way to the end of this I'm afraid. Cassel is obviously very good but the film itself quickly loses any sight of its intriguing premise.
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Tired of being the butt of society's jokes, two redheads set off on a nihilistic rampage across the grim landscape of Northern France. www.themoviewaffler.com/2012/01/first-time-watches-january-2012.html