Regie:
Guillaume BracCamera:
Alan GuichaouaActeurs:
Salif Cissé, Asma Messaoudene, Benjamin Natchouang, Édouard Sulpice, Martin Mesnier, Nicolas PietriSamenvattingen(1)
Iedereen die zijn vakantie in het water zag vallen, kan zich toch weer even in zonnig Frankrijk wanen met À L'abordage! Felix ontmoet Alma per toeval op een warme zomeravond. Ze lachen, dansen en brengen de nacht door in een park. Maar wanneer Alma de volgende dag naar haar familie in Zuid-Frankrijk moet vertrekken, besluit Félix haar samen met een vriend te verrassen door haar achterna te reizen. Ze carpoolen met een jonge man die verstrikt raakt in het plan. Niets lijkt te gaan zoals gepland in deze heerlijk romantische film. (Leiden International Film Festival)
(meer)Recensie (3)
Of all the festival films I saw, I had the most hope for All Hands on Deck, but at the moment, I can't hide my feelings of awkwardness. In the end result, the movie is a light, summer relaxed romantic, easily forgettable... nothing. For a comedy, it's inadequately focused, but that definitely doesn't mean that there are no situations that will evoke a light smile on your face. However, I constantly had the feeling that I was seeing wasted potential in the story, the characters, and the individual scenes. This simply is not a film that will be remembered for long or that is powerful and impactful. If you are in tune with the film, you will be rewarded, but otherwise, it will quickly start to bore you. I would appreciate All Hands on Deck more as the debut of a fresh film school graduate, but the way that it is, I have no reason to give an overall impression higher than 50%.
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Along with comedy All Hands on Deck should also be labeled as a dram, as it mixes elements of both genres and takes a bit of each. Despite the number of funny scenes, the film is not outright comical; rather, while watching it, I felt a humorous edge that came from the situations the main characters were put in. Alongside this, the film also deals with more serious themes. Each of the three men the film follows have their own personal issues (maternal addiction, good-natured shyness and elemental spontaneity) and it is this journey together that allows them to confront and face these issues. Despite these more serious moments, the film radiated an incredibly positive vibe, which quite possibly makes it the most light-hearted film in the program of Tady Vary.
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It's not a comedy. Just a sensitive defense of the mundane, true to its subject matter in its guerrilla approach, with non-actors or debutantes filmed among real people on vacation who occasionally peer curiously into the camera. The film's strongest asset is definitely its familiar portrayal of the micro-life of family car camping in season, with all its traumatic details, including the ubiquitous Dutch. Every sound of a tent zipper unzipping makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
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