Go and see this film expecting a comedy you may be disappointed. It's more of a weird coming of age film with some funny lines. It's very dark and has too few laughs to be a comedy. Having said that, I enjoyed it, but it's not a comedy, romance as the Imdb suggest.
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Second that. It's basically a coming of age, and not at all a comedy film.
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I'm looking forward to seeing this film as I tend to enjoy dark comedies, but there's always someone on IMDB claiming that dark comedies aren't funny at all, so sense of humor could be the difference in this case as well. Either way, the 'comedy' tag seems justified since there's not another word for fun, lighthearted romance movies to distinguish them from the serious, somber romance movies.
shareIt's not that it's a black comedy. It's just not a comedy of any kind. IMDb description is just wrong.
shareQuestion: were you reading subtitles, did you watch it dubbed or are you fluent in French?
I'm asking because I was watching it with subtitles on because I was too lazy to take them off and I actually noted that the humor didn't translate at all in writing 90% of the time. I came to the conclusion that this movie isn't one to watch if you don't understand French (or you'll read it as a really dark movie, which it isn't actually).
A lot of the comedy comes from HOW they say stuff + the vocabulary they. Impossible to subtitle.
If you read the subtitles as is, the movie will come off as really dark, I agree. I loathe dramadies and was concerned this might be one. But in French it flows, it's a quirky funny coming of age story that doesn't fall into the usual romantic trapppings. This is definitely one of those films that would translate much better by being dubbed properly so the humor could be conveyed. For example: Reading the scene where they discuss the end of the world around the dinner table sounds totally serious and morbid, but when you can understand the intonations they use it's actually hilarious. The girl in particular cracked me up throughout the movie.
Good little movie, I enjoyed it.
I'm not fluent in French (I'd say I understand about 50% of what they're saying) and watched it with subtitles on.
I think her dry delivery was pretty funny. I liked when she was having the argument about the hand grenade.
The dialogues are very funny, in a black-humour sort of way, if you are French.
shareI don't speak French and I found it very funny, I was smiling throughout. The humour was in the clash of characters, the laid-back easy-going ditzy Arnaud and the hard-ass serious survivalist Madeleine. The first scene pretty much announces the comedy, an undertaker trying to sell poor-quality coffins to what turns out to be a family of carpenters. Then you've got the weird military recruiters, the ferret, the salmon in the blender, the dead chicks, the dinner, the disco - a series of really off-beat quirky character-driven scenes before the superbly sketched military satire in the middle of the film.
It's definitely comedy, maybe not the sort of comedy everyone appreciates (or even recognises) but I guess that's why they have to make movies like Dude Where's My Car.