She started as an actress with Xavier Dolan, but there is Bertrand Blier from the great era with Monia Chokri, director who signs with "Babysitter" a squeaky comedy totally unique in the #MeToo era.
It looks like nothing and it can please everyone, so much his look is devoid of any prejudice.
Cédric, a good engineer in all respects, went to watch an MMA fight and drink beers with his friends, gave the commentator a kiss and laughed at her "J'taime Chantal", while she was doing her live on TV.
Almost a sexual assault which earned him the layoff of his employer, a woman, because the sequence went viral.
Nadine, his wife, played by Monia Chokri herself, brilliantly placid in the face of men's stupidity and hysterical in the face of her mental burden, is recovering very badly from childbirth.
Take care of a baby, they can't do it.
Hence the “Babysitter”.
This is where everything goes off the rails, like a train going in one direction and about to explode in a nice fireworks display.
This one, who takes herself for "the double of Brigitte Bardot", does not have an academic morality or in any case likes to test the resistance of her neighbor.
It's because she's come a long way.
A comedy that hits where it hurts
The film begins as a pop satire - saturated colors, infernal rhythm, lines that kill ("When did you feel that your relationship with women had become problematic?", to be pronounced with a pure Quebec accent), caricatures well seen by men who are too good students of feminism — before branching off into the bushy paths that make you lose track a little along the way.
However, we want to hang on, because Monia Chokri, director of "My Brother's Wife", presses where it hurts to make us laugh and think: what is really serious?
How to change ?
Can we really form a family without going crazy?
Clever comedies, even a little on the rim, don't run the halls.
Editor's note:
3.5/5
"Babysitter", Canadian comedy by Monia Chokri, with Patrick Hivon, Monia Chokri, Nadia Tereszkiewicz (1h27).