Note : 3/5
Benoît has only three days to repay a heavy debt to a sinister gangster. He calls his parents with the idea of once again extracting a large sum of money from them to get out of yet another lousy investment. Not fooled by the reasons that push him to contact them, they anticipate his request and refuse before he even has time to make the slightest request. Taken by surprise, he claims he just wanted to tell them about his engagement to a model. A friend agrees to pretend to be his future wife and accompany him during the annual family trip to Morocco where he intends to plead his case, even if it means lying to them blatantly. But on the morning of departure, his bride for a day withdraws. He is then forced to offer the role of false fiancée to Fiona, the Uber driver who takes him to the airport!
Laroque, Darmon… A casting that seduces!
Camille Lellouche imposes her comic style, like a caricature of suburban scum, on this impulsive young woman who is far from distinguished outspoken. It quickly becomes obvious that she is going to clash with the uptight bourgeois family of this smack-headed bachelor who behaves as badly with women as with those close to him. It won’t take long for her to prove that she has the necessary pep not to let herself be humiliated by her false suitor. She forms a spicy duo with Lionel Erdogan, the two passing the ball with aplomb and fluidity. It exudes the right amount of smugness to allow the viewer to enjoy hating this failed businessman who keeps getting back on his feet thanks to Dad’s and especially Mom’s fortune.
Michèle Laroque demonstrates a worrying authority as a mother who treats her children like her employees, a pitfall that she does not avoid with her husband. He pretends to follow a drastic diet and become a jogging and tennis addict for his beautiful eyes but hides to consume sweets and alcohol whenever her back is turned. He is played in a debonair register, by Gérard Darmon, invited to the casting by Camille Lellouche herself because they became very close after winning the second season of “LOL: who laughs, goes out” together.
Amaury de Crayencour and Clémence Bretécher are Benoît’s brother and sister, mediocre in jealousy and sources of some amusing scenes too. The first, deliciously atrocious with his wife, will fortunately be well punished!
This entertainment with its implausible beginnings could have been vulgar or, worse, banal, but it seduces with the energy of its actors and its often funny exaggerated dialogues, like a funny dig at Marion Cotillard.
Comedy by Frank Bellocq, with Lionel Erdogan, Camille Lellouche, Michèle Laroque, Gérard Darmon and Amaury de Crayencour.
