Les affamés

My friends and I were looking for a nice movie on a Friday night, we decided to make an effort and watch a French movie for a change...

I found the movie terribly long and incredibly boring. I haven't seen something that bad in a really long time. The story had some potentiel, it's about our young generation and all the struggles we have to face regarding schools, precarious jobs, finding an apartement... Zoe wants to do something and tries to unite her friends and all of the young people of the country with the internet, group meetings and social actions. Why not, I mean it's some kind of hidden communism and we can actually identify with what they experience. But the thing is most of the story is deceptively very cliché, and so are the characters. We got lost in terrible acting and storylines, the worst of all being Louane Emera as the lead. She's a popular singer among youngsters in France and after a movie that got success(La Famille Bélier) it is her second major role. The issue is, she isn't an actress, her acting seems fake just as if she were reading, no passion whatsover, cheesy lines and incredibly awkward ones as well...

This movie is definitely not worth your money, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Find something else to watch instead...

I watched this because I felt down and it looked like a comedy, but it made me want to die.

The trailer makes you believe that the movie is about youth taking the power with some kind of snowballing social movement that turn into an interesting maneuver that could become historical.

But in the end, it's just a dramatic comedy about young friends in a colocation. some stuff happens, and the main characters tries to wake everyone up with her marxist ideas. But it doesn't work and everyone hates her.

So the movie moves on into a regular comedy. Until the end where she says "We will fight no matter what ! " Yeah, I bet. Worst revolution ever.

Anyhow, it got some interesting discordian ideas that could be applied in real like, like saying "Hi I got a Master's degree in Architecture" before you take someone's order in McDonalds, to make everyone understand that you're not at your place and society is messing with youth. The problem is that the movie forgets about this real quick. Half an hour of useless teenage drama drowns the movies' initial point.

The message is painfully obvious (said out loud actually), that's not any of filmaking works.