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Prime Video and Gaumont (“Intouchables”) are teaming up on an uplifting mother-son drama tackling disability, directed by Ken Scott (“Starbuck”), and starring French actors Leïla Bekhti (“All Your Faces”) and Jonathan Cohen (“Sentinelle”). Scott penned and will be directing the film which is titled “Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan” and is based on Roland Perez’s novel by the same name.

The project is the first theatrical film that Amazon Prime Video is co-financing as part of the French decree that kicked off in July 2021 and stems from the implementation of the European Commission’s legislation called Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Avms). As such, Gaumont will release the film theatrically in France and holds all distribution rights in France and internationally (outside of Canada). “Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan” will roll out on Prime Video 17 months after its theatrical release under France’s windowing rules.

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The idea that somehow an idiot of a man became someone to watch out for is not very new. It’s the way Sentinelle, directed by Hugo Benamozig and David Caviglioli, so unabashedly deals with this idea with the snappy dialogue that makes Sentinelle an outstanding comedy. There is just no inhibition here. That doesn’t mean the film derails and goes into foolish territory. Now, the whole film is, in a way, foolish, but it’s well intentionally foolish. The film that the makers are trying to make wouldn’t have worked if it ever tried to be something more than what it actually is. The character of Sentinelle has such flavor that he can be a primary character in so many sequels based around his misadventures.

Captain François Sentinelle is an imbecile of the highest order. He couldn’t solve a case if his life depended on it,...