Notre Jour Viendra-Our Day Will Come
Having spotted that Vincent Cassel's latest French Movie was showing at the ICA in The Mall and guessing it propbably wouldn't get wide distribution here as it's in French we booked out tickets before it sold out, not difficult in a cinema as small as this, as there were a couple of people who sat and watched it in on the floor in the Aisle!
The film is about one of France's most oppressed minorities Ginger Gooners who may or may not be gay and play world of Warcraft, no it doesn't feature wall to wall posters of Alan Ball and Ray Parlour but instead follows hapless Ginger Gooner Remy (Olivier Barthelemy) whose hair appears to have been dyed to cover his shame as he goes into see his Therapist/Psychiatrist the ever so slightly ginger Patrick (Vincent Cassel), who has a brilliantly insulting and diffident air to his job of dealing with his not so stable clientele, he takes Remy under his wings and tries to turn him into a campaigner for the French equivalent of Gingers For Justice.
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What actually happens is a surreal and very very funny road movie that is part Thelma And Louise part kitchen sink drama and never not funny as they head out on the road trying to get to the promised land a country and place where Gingers are treated like normal people and there is no Gingerism, yes they are trying to get to Ireland, how they get there and what happnes along the way you'll need to see the film to find out.
But it is well worth finding and we spent most of the film laughing loudly along with everyone else in the cinema at what is possible a deeply allegorical movie about the alienation felt by oppressed minorities in France and elsewhere.
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