Rumba la vie: Franck Dubosc at his best [critique]

An endearing comedy because it is powerfully sincere, to watch again on TMC. This Sunday, the channel is programming a special evening dedicated to the actor and director.

Franck Dubosc will be the star of the evening on channel 10: TMC rebroadcasts Rumba lifehis own production released in cinemas in August 2022. First highly recommend it to you. Note that it will be followed by a funny show, Retroscopywhere the actor puts himself on stage in the future to better retrace his career.

For Franck Dubosc, there was a before and an after Everyone standing. As an actor, he had certainly enjoyed greater success. But never, until then, had critics really looked (and enthusiastically!) at his work. As if he was part of the furniture and nothing was expected of him. This first achievement therefore opened a path that extends Rumba life where we find him as an old boy who has come back from everything, who, after a heart problem, will confront his past by enrolling incognito in a dance class led by his daughter whom he never knew, hoping to reconnect with her.

As in Everyone standing where his character pretended to be disabled, the lie is therefore at the heart of the story but is quickly exposed to tell, without this artifice, a father-daughter relationship in precarious construction, where, without departing from his humor, Dubosc splits the armor more than usual. The obvious then arises: Dubosc, actor, has rarely been really watched (Bis constitutes an exception) by its different directors behind the mask of comedy. It is therefore logical that he did not make an impression on the screen in his rare, more serious roles. It is also logical that he gives the full measure of his game here. Because he has this view that is both sincere about himself as an actor and generous with his partners who are never reduced to the level of showing off.

Too much in his quest for a happy ending, Rumba life is not free from flaws. But his disarming sincerity and his assumed first degree make the subject endearing and deeply moving from start to finish.

Trailer:

Franck Dubosc: “I know I could never complete an order”