Sandrine Kiberlain and Daniel Otey are in the boat: why the comedy La Petite vadrouille will make you happy at the cinema?

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Justine, her husband and a whole group of friends find a way to solve their money problems: they organize a fake romantic cruise for Frank, a big investor who is trying to seduce a woman.

3 good reasons to see “La Petite vadrouille”.

If you’re worried that this is a comedy trying to measure up to La Grande vadrouille, rest assured: there’s absolutely no connection between the two, other than knowing how to make us laugh. If you’re still not convinced, here are some other reasons.

1 – Bruno Podalides’ sweet cinema

The missing link between Alain Chabat and Edward Baer, ​​both physically and in the awkwardness of his characters and the way they express themselves, Bruno Podalides is one of our most unique comedies. in the correct sense of the term. Mixing gags and poetry with a sense of humor that became a hit for 35 years and in 1989 his first short film The Last Movement of Summer was released.

In our theaters on June 5th, La Petite vadrouille is his eleventh feature film in just over three decades. And this comedy proves that water brings success to the actor and director: Liberte Oleron is one of his funniest films (for the author of these lines, but not only) with his boat story; And like an airplane, kayaking forward, one of his gentlest.

Playing the card of absurdity and poetry, with a nice cruising rhythm, relaxing and going against the grain of these sometimes too fast comedies, La Petite Vadrouille doesn’t deeply innovate its cinema.

But it will delight fans of the cinema of Bruno Podalides (who will find the famous glaviola, an essential object of his work), while others will be able to refrain from the charm that slowly spreads in this odyssey in which everyone seems to be. have fun

2 – Accompanying and loyal actors

Bruno Podalides’ cinema would not be what it is without his actors. And especially his brother Dennis, who appears in every feature film, including a very small role, such as Wahou!, which came out last year. But he is not the only regular, as we find Isabelle Candelier, Jean-Noël Brutte, Patrick Ligards and Florence Müller, who are recurring faces in his work.

Which doesn’t work in a closed circle, as it welcomes two newcomers here: Dimitri Dore, a chilling revelation from Bruno Reidal, who completely changes register in this role of an almost mute muse with burlesque accents; And Daniel O’Taylor, who needs no introduction and who here seems like a fish out of water in front of the director’s camera.

3 – Small Theater of Bruno Podalides

Having become a friend and close collaborator of Alain René, whom he especially assisted in Cœurs and Vous n’avez encore rien vu, Bruno Podalides shares with the author of On sais la chanson a pronounced taste for the theater. He certainly expresses himself less directly than he does with his brother Denis, a member of the Comedie-Française.

But we find traces there in the group of co-actors and actresses he brings together from film to film, or even his adaptations of The Secret of the Yellow Room and The Perfume of the Lady in Black. Not forgetting this little mop. Which is less reminiscent of a comedy with Louis de Funes and Burville than a play by Moliere.

Perhaps due to the presence of Daniel Otey, who often adapted the author for the stage and who we find in the role of this rich man whom other, more modest characters want to steal. In a hint of vaudeville that we won’t reveal much more than the trailer does, in this small scene it’s the boat that serves as the centerpiece of the story.

In which the characters play a part (for some or even a few) and disguise themselves, which allows this little mop to mix cinema and theater with a lightness that contributes to its charm. Until this last scene, which only confirms this inspiration. Ready to get on board?