Un indien dans la ville is a French film comedy first released in 1994, directed by Hervé Palud.  The film stars Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Timsit, Ludwig Briand, Miou-Miou and Arielle Dombasle.  It has also been released under the title: An Indian in Paris.  Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.


Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater.  He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte.  Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku.  The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days.  How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?

This lowbrow comedy may appeal to children but has little to offer the grown-ups (particularly those of an arachnophobic disposition).  It’s an obvious French take on the “concept movie” and like most such films has virtually no plot and a set of characters that would be better placed in a kid’s strip cartoon.  There are a few laughs, but after a while, the juvenile comedy begins to get very tiresome.


© James Travers 2005

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