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Camping à la ferme
2005 Comedy
 Review
Director Jean-Pierre Sinapi looks on the lighter side of racial and
cultural clashes in this upbeat comedy, his third full length film to
date. In common with Sinapi’s earlier Nationale
7 (2000) and Vivre me tue (2002), Camping à la ferme presents
a disparate group of people (most played by non-professional actors)
who are trying to fit in with the intolerant world around them, overcoming their
own prejudices and that of others as they do so. Admittedly it is
somewhat less substantial than the director’s previous films, but its
appealing blend of social realism and comedy, its well-drawn characters
and unpredictable humour give it a certain charm and dynamism that is hard to resist.
However, some may consider the film to be wilfully optimistic and
maintain that Mathieu Kassivitz’s La Haine (1995) still provides
a far more accurate representation of the race issue in Western society
today.
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Director:
Jean-Pierre Sinapi
Starring: Roschdy Zem, Rafik Ben Mebarek, Jean-Noël Cridlig-Veneziano, Hassan Ouled-Bouarif, Yves Michel Synopsis
Six juvenile delinquents from inner city Paris are offered an
alternative to the usual short sharp shock of a prison sentence – a
month in the country doing odd jobs for the community. Amar, the
social worker in charge of the group, has his job cut out trying to
keep the young rebels and social misfits in order – not an easy task
when the countryside offers them few distractions and some of the
locals provoke them with racist taunts. The only person who seems
pleased with this initiative is the mayor of the community, who sees
this as an opportunity to promote her work and herself...
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