For the critics, Alain Chabat wears alone # JeSuisLà

Éric Lartigau is back. Six years after being consecrated with La Famille Bélier , the director returns with # JeSuisLà, a romantic comedy. Alain Chabat, Blanche Gardin and the Korean actress Doona Bae, seen in Sense8 , are in the casting. The former No One plays Stéphane, a chef in the Basque Country, who suddenly falls in love with a Korean on social networks. And decides to join her in Seoul.

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"White mane in the wind, Alain Chabat brings all his charm to this delicate fable and clearly seen over time and the deceptive mirages of a virtual society" , summarizes the JDD . “We love his wandering in Seoul airport, somewhere between The Terminal and Lost in translation . Less the agreed and tourist reunion with his sons ” , however tempers the weekly.

Also on the World side, Alain Chabat's performance was convincing. “The actor honors him with a presence as fragile as it is powerful. The filmmaker says of him that he has an almost clumsy approach, to which he puts a touching assurance ” , underlines Véronique Cauhapé. The daily believes in particular that " not to make this character a man in the grip of dereliction is one of the beautiful ideas " of the film.

The actor honors him with a presence as fragile as it is powerful. The filmmaker says of him that he has an almost clumsy gait, to which he puts a touching assurance

Conquered, Le Par isie considers that # JeSuisLà draws up at the same time "the portrait of a man a little lost, and a reflection on loneliness and identity in the age of social networks ". Once is not custom, Alain Chabat manages to sublimate the film: "He brings to his character so much tenderness and poetry that he takes us on this journey full of charm and unexpected" .

Alain Chabat brings his character so much tenderness and poetry that he embarks us on this journey full of charm and unexpected

For Première , "the delicacy with which Lartigau develops this closed camera like no other is only equaled by the masterful interpretation of Alain Chabat" . Thierry Cheze, visibly seduced by the film, hammers: " We had never seen him give up at this point, evolve like the most brilliant tightrope walkers on the extremely tenuous and thereby tremendously daring thread of this intrigue ".

Alain Chabat is there, not the rest

"Éric Lartigau ladle towards Lost in Translation , but Alain Chabat is not Bill Murray" , asserts him, Éric Neuhoff du Figaro . “Terrible facilities spoil the picture. Blanche Gardin, a waitress always late, has a Southwest accent (ouch), while her boss avoids this singing talk (why?), "He questions. If # JeSuisLà claimed to be a love film: " It will be for the next time ". Same observation for L'Obs, who thinks that “All of this would have a slight taste of Lost in Translation if the personality of Alain Chabat, on which Éric Lartigau regulates the pace of his film, was not the opposite of that of Bill Murray "

The first half hour that sets the scene for a Stéphane stuck in the routine of his restaurant borders on caricature

“Alain Chabat does the best. The script does not always make things easier for him , ” explains Sud Ouest. , which also deplores the “ a little too touristy ” treatment reserved for the Basque Country. "The first half hour that sets the scene for a Stéphane stuck in the routine of his restaurant borders on caricature, sparing us no cliché on the province, its accents and its landscapes shrouded in mist ..." , joined in the same line The cross .

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