Linkshoch Wonderful Movie

Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

PodBill Just what I expected

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

the_doofy The family is a deaf family, so it has great critical reviews and reviewer hypeWhat the movie does not have is an actress with an amazing singing voice, the girl with the 'undiscovered' voice would never make it past the first round of a talent showI figured to so this review in case anyone is actually interested in the singing quality. The main actress is supposed to be this exhausted farm girl, but she always looks like a well rested girl who is pretending to be tired. The angle on the rest of the family is unique, I will give it that.With some effort they could have found a girl with a great voice, but i guess they succeeded with the movie on the disability angle

The Couchpotatoes Before watching La Famille Bélier I thought I was going to have a couple good laughs because François Damiens plays in it and his sketches as François L'Embrouille on Youtube always make me laugh. But the quite opposite happened, him being deaf and mute in a family of deaf and mute is not the ideal scenario for laughing. But there are some funny moments. What is for sure is that La Famille Bélier is a roller-coaster of emotions. I'm not too shy to admit I had some tears rolling at one point, from happiness or sadness I don't know. The only thing I know is that I liked the movie even though it's not necessary the kind of movie I would go for normally. The story is pretty simple but effective. The cast is well chosen with some excellent acting. Basically it's a good story, a feelgood movie, and sometimes we need that.

zzwerty This is a really conventional film. It wasn't painful, It's not like I didn't enjoy it. But I really can't fathom the rave reviewsAs I was watching, it always felt as if it would take an interesting turn, or something. There was the mother's "we thought you were a lesbian!" comment. I thought perhaps this might be genuine and perhaps the daughter was actually jealous of her best friend's regular sexual encounters. But I quickly realised it was intended to be a joke, based on the laughing of the people who thought it was funny for some reason.It felt as if the characters had potentially important interactions and then immediately forgot about them. For example, at the start there is a scene in which a GP instructs the couple not to have sex for 3 weeks at least (, presumably due to some kind of disease). Not long after that they have sex anyway. But the consequences or significance of this is never touched upon. What was the purpose of the GP scene, seeing as nothing he said affected anything in the movie? These kinds of seemingly meaningless, but perhaps mildly funny scenes are littered throughout the movie. It feels like they were spreading the seeds for interesting plot items later on but all this potential was abandoned to focus on the main plot. which is straight out of Hollywood, it'd be hard to find a more typical coming-of-age story.All this would have been perfectly passable if the characters had been more charming and interesting. But instead most seem very shallow, quite cliché. Both the love interest and younger brother rarely go beyond the teenage male stereotype as perpetuated by middle agers. Here is a list of the younger brother's interesting traits: -he loves his sister -he likes breasts -he wants to have sex with his sister's friend Here is a list of the love interest's interesting traits: -he is kinda sad or worried for some reason and quits singing even though he's good at it (this is never followed up?) -that wasn't a personality trait and the love interest is a really boring character. It doesn't help that the actor doesn't seem capable of more than one facial expression.The singing teacher is somewhat interesting. But it seems like he changes throughout the movie. At first, he's dismissing the central character's friend from the choir audition before she even sang based on the way she looked if I recall correctly. So I thought "wow, this person really is a dick". But then the central character barely seems to even care and by the end of the movie the teacher is nothing but warm and cordial. There are posters of someone all over his room but this is also never discussed. Similarly there are interesting posters all over the central character's room. What looks like a Chinese communist poster in her study area, hindu posters on the wall. But they are also never discussed and I'm still wondering how they got there. The acting is all pretty good except for the love interest, especially how little there seemed to be to work with. Same with cinematography and music.So yeah. I left feeling as if I had watched nothing. Like I can remember watching all these events happen, but they had no meaning or significance within the plot. The only plot that was followed through was so cliché I may as well have already seen it. What did I think of the movie? I don't feel like I even watched a movie...

ticanard If you like action movies with lots of special effects and all those things, forget this film. This is a movie that will make you feel good, laugh and at the same time shed some tears. First, the actors are all excellent and the music is beautiful (I am a huge fan of Michel Sardou). The photography is also excellent and the dialogue is very funny on many occasions. I especially likes the actress portraying the mother in the film, her facial expressions are exceptional. As for the young girl her voice is not exceptional but she gives a very beautiful rendition of the songs of Michel Sardou. The only reason I rate this film as 9 is because from the time she meets her music teacher you immediately guess the end of the movie. Finally there was not a dry eye in the theather. This is my kind of film. SPOILER COMING UP. The part where my wife and I loved the most was when the girl sings at the contest the sound is suddenly cut off and you feel what the parents feel and also when, the night before going to Paris, her father feels the girls throat to sort of find out her singing.