Rebels: “Allan Mauduit wrote his screenplay well before #MeToo”

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Audrey Lamy and Cécile de France present this film to be (re)watched this Sunday on France 2.

A (French) comedy where the girls carry guns and shoot guns is rare enough to be worth mentioning. When in addition, it brings together a trio of actresses known for their sense of comic timing (Audrey Lamy, Cécile of France And Yolande Moreau), we can only be attentive.

Although uneven, the filmAllan Mauduit, Rebels, nevertheless allows itself to be looked at without displeasure, despite an agreed story, between Little Murder Between Friends And Revenge: Sandra accidentally kills her rapist and finds herself and her two friends carrying a bag full of bills belonging to the local mafia…

At the beginning of 2019, First had met Lamy and Cécile de France at the Alpe d'Huez Festival. A few weeks before its cinema release, Rebel left with the press prize. Interview.

Alpe d’Huez 2019 – Cécile de France: “We loved handling weapons”

Is Rebels worth it? At the time, First had enjoyed the film, without being completely convinced. Here is our review:

Allan Mauduit is an old school prankster, an heir of Hara-Kiri, of his bad manners and his bad taste. Sometimes it works (the series Kabul Kitchen that he co-created), sometimes it goes wrong (Naughtyhis first falsely provocative film). Rebels lies between the two, between the biting, stupid and nasty satire and the conventional exculpatory portrait. Cécile de France, Yolande Moreau and Audrey Lamy form a trio of workers at the origin of the accidental death of their harassing boss – and incidentally associated with a small local gangster. A bag full of money will cause them a lot of problems… Riding the wave of empowerment, Rebels half achieves its goal: its heroines are unevenly convincing (Moreau as a scruffy mother, meh…) while the men are of course all morons.

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