2023-12-27 04:19:00
Of the cushy genre, Emilie Deleuze’s comedy about the limousine odyssey of a city dweller who dreams of buying a tractor is seriously silting up.
It’s not the tractor that makes the man. But all the same, a bike that makes noise on which to bravely survey its 5 hectares of land, that changes you from a Parisian. Lambert Wilson, in the role of the proud neo-rural, new owner of land in Limousin, persists in wanting to bring back a wreck he paid too much for on his property. Way of establishing legitimacy in the eyes of the neighboring farmer who covets his plot, showing that he is not yet another parasite who has come from the city to conquer the countryside without getting his boots dirty. The comedy of the return to nature, of the ancestral conflict between the city dweller and the rural dweller, is at the heart of a more than cushy road movie, where it will be a question of covering a hundred terminals on the back of a tractor. The plot is intended to be minimal, in the straight downward direction advocated by the eco-friendly actor in promotion – himself residing in a mill in Burgundy, we learn these days, and who has not hesitated recently to go there of his rant against Christmas buying fever, that’s what it says! Let’s say that the respect we have for the approach does not exclude reservations about the capital sympathy of the characters (or sociological profiles) summoned here, not really enough to make us think about the city-country divide in new ways or even amuse ourselves, even if only a little, with their misfortunes.
5 hectares by Emilie Deleuze with Lambert Wilson, Marina Hands… 1h34.
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