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Our Skirmishers Review: Heavy Artillery

2023-01-03T14:58:51.598Z


Omar Sy, actor and producer, pays tribute to the African combatants of the 1914-1918 war. A naive and clumsy evocation.


It's never too late to learn.

We knew that the Senegalese skirmishers wore puttees.

We will learn here that they were wearing big clogs.

Basically, this is what there is to remember from this studious, naive and clumsy evocation of 14-18.

The subject deserved better.

It was urgent to pay tribute to these forced conscripts, to shine the spotlight on these not necessarily glorious episodes in our history.

Mathieu Vadepied, former chief operator of Jacques Audiard and Nakache and Toledano, chose didacticism and good feelings.

Omar Sy, also a producer, therefore finds himself on the front line in the company of his son, who the authorities do not know is his son (you follow?).

He has only one idea: to return home.

The kid doesn't hear it that way.

He wants to climb the military hierarchy, conquer his stripes, be a real Frenchman (are you still following?).

An agreed set

The generational conflict takes place in the middle of the trenches.

Misunderstanding...

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Source: lefigaro

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