With these somewhat lost men and these clumsy feminists, the director of the “name of people” makes fun of his protagonists with kindness. Cheerful.
Simone (Léa Drucker, unusable with her red perfecto) is a cop infiltrated in a Dijon feminist group, Les Hardies, which Marianne (Judith Chemla) directs. Paul (Benjamin Lavernhe) is an enthusiastic but missed actor. He also wants to be a man, father and husband deconstructs (his wife, an actress, played by Julia Piaton, succeeds better than him) but gets a little getting lost, often taking her legs in words (he often says, proudly, “I am a demolished man”). One day, when her “comrades” are starting to suspect her to be a mole, Simone, trapped, accuses Paul of having raped her.
Michel Leclerc makes left -wing political comedies. He had met a first success, in 2010, with The names of people (The best role to date from Lionel Jospin to the cinema), where he staged Sara Forestier in the role of an activist who converted the right men to her left ideas by sleeping with them … The mixture of genres Finally tells the same thing, but differently, since in contact with the lunar Paul and the Hardies (the “Syndrome de Stockholm”, keep screaming her colleagues), the reactive cop will change her mind on feminism …
With his Coscenarist Baya Kasmi, Leclerc succeeds in making us laugh by making fun of both a little lost men in the post-metoo, but benevolent, fights, and neophyte and clumsy feminists (Melha Bedia, very funny). All of the actors are in unison, and make up a sympathetic and removed comedy. Benjamin Lanternhe, in a eccentric character, gives the film the charm of the first Philippe de Broca (those with Jean-Pierre Cassel). In addition, the sexual freedom of Leclerc’s characters is still so pleasing.
The mixture of genres of Michel Leclerc, with Léa Drucker, Benjamin, Melha Bedia (Fra., 2025, 1:43). In the room on 16 April.
