Vive la France (2013)
Directed by Michaël Youn

Film Synopsis

Who has heard of Taboulistan?  That's the problem: nobody!  This is a tiny speck of a country in Asia that no one outside of Taboulistan has ever heard of - and this is something that the patriotic son of the country's president intends to put right.  He intends recruiting two terrorists and sending them to Paris on a special mission: to blow up the Eiffel Tower.  The publicity this will garner will surely put Taboulistan on the map and give a welcome shot in the arm to its ailing tourist industry.  The men that are recruited for this vitally important assignment are two ordinary shepherds, Muzafar and Feruz.  For the good of their country, they are willing to do anything - even destroy a historic monument on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Unfortunately, when these two innocents arrive in France they are in for an almighty culture shock.  They are ill-equipped to deal with such a miserable country, one where outrage and misery are rampant and where nothing seems to work correctly. Those who are not protesting at the top of their voices are busy ripping others off or else tying up the unwary in kilometres of red tape.  France is a land seething with discontent!  The two shepherds are on the point of giving up when they run into Marianne, an amiable reporter who, mistaking them for illegal immigrants, offers to help them in any way she can.  It is thanks to her that our would-be terrorists get to see another side to France - the welcoming cosmopolitan Utopia that we all remember from the days of Jeux sans frontières.  'Vive la France' is the phrase that echoes around Muzafar and Feruz's heads as they fall in love with the country against which they had intended to inflict a mortal blow...