Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Loui Blair
It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
erina
This movie is great. The producer of the film is Luc Beson, and it is perhaps his talent that makes it a quite a masterpiece. I think if this movie could be properly translated from French into English it could live the whole new second life among English audience. It deserves higher rating on your database. I would say it is not only French humor that makes it worth to see. The focus on human values that are possessed by people hunted by their criminal background and resulting situations where they need to decide about doing good of evil, played in a comedy format, makes it one of the best films produced by French cinematography in the last 5 years. Unfortunately the fact that Luc Beson was a contributor to this film, is not mentioned on your database profile. It would definitely create much mo interest for general audience to see one of the best French movies made lately.
Teo Chee Tat
my french is very limited, thus there might have been much humour that i didn't understand, but i feel this film was not made as a comedy but rather more as a satire. there were many ironies going on in the show: jailbird becoming priest, even bettering others in the job; priest becoming attracted to forces in materialism and the secular world; police and priest both see alcohol and sex as part of life and commoners empathising with that; and finally the irony of the neverending disputes of religions as opposed to how love could unite disparate beliefs. those who often seek divine help, hardly know that those who have genuine solutions to their problems are people not much different from them, perhaps merely more confident.
rostysilverside
I think that people that don't speak or understand French should not watch this movie because French films are made to watch in French. I think people should stop rating this film and just not watch French movies if they watch it English. I'm warning you if you watch this film in English, it will loose it's every aspect it's worth watching for. The difference between English and French films is that even though you can add French or English dubs to a movie, you can translate a movie from one language to another, but you can never translate everything. I've watched French films in English, there's no point because it's a completely different film. This film is funny,sarcastic, slightly violent but in a funny way and full of French jokes which is impossible to translate to English. So I suggest for people not to watch this film unless they speak and understand perfectly the French language. This movie deserves more than it was rated.
ericpecher
Jean-Marie Bigard is well known in France for his crude sexual jokes. I was rather surprised while watching this movie to see how 'contended' he might be for his part - much more subtle than I expected.The duo Doudi-Bigard worked quiet well for 3/4 of the movie and I enjoyed many of the characters part. The movie suddenly seemed to go a different way in the last quarter, trying to deliver some kind of moralistic message that didn't convince me too much.Story pitch (may content minor spoilers) : Mario (J-M Bigard) is just released from jail after a 7 years detention for jewels robbery. Some of his 'old friends' are waiting for him at the prison entrance because he is the only one to know the location of very precious jewels from a previous robbery. After a few intimidations, Mario is going to his brother Patrick (Doudi Strajmayster) - a priest - to find a place to hide from his dangerous friends. Patrick's only idea is to disguise Mario as a priest and send him in a very isolated village in Ardeche as a priest student. But once Mario arrives in the village of Banne, the crowd there is awaiting for him to bury the just passed-away former local priest - and take his place ! In the meantime, Mario asks his brother Patrick to retrieve the jewels and sell them to a local mafia boss. The more the story evolves, the more the two characters take the position of one another with unexpected consequences !I gave it a 6/10 because of the good performance of the actors even if the story is sometimes a bit predictable and annoying - some good parts are irresistible to laugh at. A good average french comedy.
