The comedy “Les Petites Victoires” with Michel Blanc and Julia Piaton was released in theaters this Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Critics’ press review.
[Mis à jour le 1er mars 2023 à 11h44] The small victories is one of the comedies to see in the cinema releases of the 1is March 2023. Directed by Mélanie Auffret, this film with Michel Blanc and Julia Piaton won the Special Jury Prize at the Alpe d’Huez Festival on January 16. Spectators can follow the complicated daily life of Alice, a teacher elected mayor of her small town, who must face a new challenge when a grieving sixty-year-old decides to enroll in her school to learn to read.
Reviews are generally won over by The small victories, since the film received a rating of 3.5/5 from the press (16 titles) on the Allociné review aggregator. Le Parisien salutes “a gem of comedy” on rurality, while 20 minutes considers that this film “doped with benevolence is very successful”. For Télé Loisirs, “Julia Piaton and Michel Blanc form the perfect duo in this comedy with chiseled dialogues, full of sensitivity, humor, and skillfully evoking the desertification of the countryside”. For the time being, only L’Obs has not been seduced, deploring a “predictable scenario”, “minimalist narrative issues” which leave “unsatisfied”.
Synopsis – It’s not easy for Alice to juggle between her job as a teacher and that of mayor of the small town of Kerguen. Especially since at the slightest concern, the inhabitants come to ask for his help, whether it is a question of small or bigger problems. The single thirty-year-old however encounters a real obstacle in her path when Emile, a villager who has lost his brother, decides to enroll in her school in order to learn to read. But the association between the sexagenarian and the children very quickly turns into a nightmare for Alice who no longer knows where to turn, especially since she must save the village and her school…