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A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.
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- TriviaLily-Rose Depp, Adèle Haenel and Virginie Efira were originally cast, but later dropped out; Haenel due to disagreements over the writing, and Depp and Efira due to delays causing scheduling conflicts. They were replaced by Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei and Camille Cottin, respectively.
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TLDR: Don't waste your time unless you often find trite tasteless sexist jokes (for both sexes) extremely funny and original.
I don't know what I am more shocked and appalled at: how the director got such a budget for this piece of crap or that it was actually shown on a film festival (Berlinale) AND it is in the Main competition category. Blows my mind.
The movie's plot is a pretty clear allegory for the supposed ^battle of the sexes^. Also supposed to be a comedy. A parody. I have one memory of the crowd actually laughing out loud at something in this movie. So well, a very successful comedy it wasn't.
For a brief moment I thought it might be more than that - like for example satire of French teenage villagers and their forming worldviews. The Goths against the Mainstreams. Or something of this kind - slightly more fun. No. It is as banal and onedimensional as it looks - from start to finish.
Men's team is the monarchy represented by machos who grope women but also all women love them. Women's team are democratic warriors fighting for equality and solidarity but who also get emotionally attached to machos instantly.
Other than establishing such novelty cliches, the movie does literally nothing else. Oh, there is a joke about French police being useless. That was funny for a moment. But then it also quickly got boring and repetitive.
I am giving it more than one point because it is possible to sit through the movie without wanting to hurt yourself. Although on a side note, I watched it in the cinema and the extremely loud screechy music and sounds (which are so on purpose, I think) made me often have to tone it all down by covering my ears.
I don't know what I am more shocked and appalled at: how the director got such a budget for this piece of crap or that it was actually shown on a film festival (Berlinale) AND it is in the Main competition category. Blows my mind.
The movie's plot is a pretty clear allegory for the supposed ^battle of the sexes^. Also supposed to be a comedy. A parody. I have one memory of the crowd actually laughing out loud at something in this movie. So well, a very successful comedy it wasn't.
For a brief moment I thought it might be more than that - like for example satire of French teenage villagers and their forming worldviews. The Goths against the Mainstreams. Or something of this kind - slightly more fun. No. It is as banal and onedimensional as it looks - from start to finish.
Men's team is the monarchy represented by machos who grope women but also all women love them. Women's team are democratic warriors fighting for equality and solidarity but who also get emotionally attached to machos instantly.
Other than establishing such novelty cliches, the movie does literally nothing else. Oh, there is a joke about French police being useless. That was funny for a moment. But then it also quickly got boring and repetitive.
I am giving it more than one point because it is possible to sit through the movie without wanting to hurt yourself. Although on a side note, I watched it in the cinema and the extremely loud screechy music and sounds (which are so on purpose, I think) made me often have to tone it all down by covering my ears.
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- Feb 18, 2024
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- The Empire
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- €7,990,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,962
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,526
- Mar 9, 2025
- Gross worldwide
- $25,425
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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