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Our review of Almost: Alexandre Jollien and Bernard Campan said cap'!

2022-01-25T11:27:46.488Z


CRITICISM – Friends in life for eighteen years, the Swiss philosopher and the ex-unknown sign a delicate comedy on disability.


It's a movie you don't expect.

This

feel good movie

in the form of an initiatory journey, entitled

Almost

, allows the Swiss philosopher Alexandre Jollien to take his first steps in cinema.

Funny, moving, this dramatic comedy is a kind of UFO in the landscape of French cinema.

By its audacity, its simplicity, its authenticity, this hearse road movie addresses disability with subtlety, humor and tenderness, all signed by a former member of the Inconnus, Bernard Campan.

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It is above all the story of an unexpected friendship between Louis, a solitary and resigned undertaker (Campan as just as it is moving), who crashes with his hearse into a deliveryman of organic baskets on a tricycle named Igor, hit since birth with cerebral palsy.

The character of Igor, a lively spirit in a handicapped body, circulates on the margins of society.

Its lifeline is philosophy.

This forty-year-old tries to apply somehow the precepts of…

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