Our critique of Femmes du square: avant-garde nannies

If Eye Haïdara had been American, we would have been talking about the new Whoopi Goldberg.

If she had been a man, she would have said the new Omar Sy.

The French actress Eye Haïdara is Eye Haïdara and that's already a lot.

Her character Angèle owes her a lot.

The patter, the chat, the nerve to spare.

But

is not a one-woman-show.

The palette of the actress is wide, she is not satisfied with the comic register.

Cold rage or hot sensuality, she does not allow herself to be locked into a fixed role.

Above all, it benefits from a well-crafted script, an increasingly rare commodity in popular French cinema.

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Angèle, a young Ivorian woman, accepts a job as a nanny with a divorcing mother to escape a boss who is extorting her.

She discovers a community of child minders at home, these "women of the square", often undocumented, docile and forced to work.

Angèle the rebel will come to the aid of one of them, exploited by her employer.

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