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Wonders in the Suburbs

Merveilles à Montfermeil

2019

Jeanne Balibar

Jeanne Balibar, Ramzy Bedia, Emmanuelle Béart, Mathieu Amalric ...

4.1

37

Comedy Joëlle and Kamel Mrabti are key members of staff for Montfermeil's new mayor, Emmanuelle Joly - but the couple is also in the process of divorcing. The whole staff is working together on the implementation of a wacky new policy that features the creation of the Montfermeil Intensive School of Languages, where seven of the 62 languages spoken in this town on the outskirts of Paris will be taught. Other measures include how to slow down ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Giorgia Del Don Cineuropa	"[It] acts as a much-needed warning cry against the indifference which appears to be dangerously invading everything around us."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"What a very odd, and yet weirdly likable film (...) Balibar finds an eccentric sort of utopianism (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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