Marry me friend a hit on Netflix
La Bande à Fifi, after its debut in 2005 in Le Grand Journal, has become a very successful machine. Of the 11 films produced to date, those directed by Philippe Lacheau are the best performing at the French box office. Alibi.com 2 he thus set a record with 4.5 million entrieswith behind him Alibi.com AND Babysitting 2 accumulating 3.6 and 3.2 million entries respectively. And in fourth position we then find the first film by another member of the gang, Marry me friend directed by Tarek Boudali. This was added to the Netflix catalog on December 1st and immediately rose to prominence first place in the Top 10 Films France.
Unnoticed upon its release, this “Seven”-style thriller is a hit on Netflix
Marry me friend it went down when it was released…
The La Bande à Fifi films have never stood out for the finesse and subtlety of their humor. Indeed, the different social themes that can be addressed mainly serve as a pretext to create comic situations that do not avoid clichés and a certain vulgarity. Published in 2017, Marry me friend is a commercial success with 2.4 million entriesbut critics received it negatively, highlighting its use homophobic stereotypesfinding the film caricatural and lazy, even “vulgar and ugly” according to The world.
The story ofMarry me friend is the following:
Yassine (Tarek Boudali), a young Moroccan student, arrives in Paris to study architecture on a student visa. Following an unfortunate event, he failed the exam, lost his visa and found himself in France in an irregular situation. To make up for this, he marries his best friend and neighbor, Fred (Philippe Lacheau). Just when he thinks everything is settled, a stubborn inspector comes after him
…and controversial
Various associations, including Act Up and the Association of LGBT Journalists, question the responsibility of the director but also that of the media who would have been complacent during the promotion ofMarry me friend. On the occasion of its release, comedian Tristan Lopin released a video in which he denounces all the clichés and lazy structures of the film.
So if his humor is based on clichés and largely hackneyed and therefore very dated jokes about homosexuality, Marry me friend however, he seems to have (re)found his audience, with a first place in the Top 10 ahead of him A question of details AND Family change.
Source: Cine Serie
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