A comedy about old-age poverty? Including people that were labelled as racaille (thugs)? Here you go - Ken Loach gone funny.
Paulette has a very little pension and can hardly survive. She doesn't pay her bills, is a shameful dumpster diver and a racist, as she says that people with a darker skin live better. Her son in law is black and she hates her grandson. (What kind of mother will give her son to such a bitch?) From her son in law, who is working at the police, she learns that the wealth of the young people is from drug dealing. She wants to enter that business also and gets the chance when she catches a package of weed. The other dealers don't like the extra competition, so Paulette changes her business model. She processes the drugs in biscuits and cakes. However, when she refuses to sell her pain chocolat to school kids, the drug mafia is no longer amused. - In the end she transfers her bakery to Amsterdam.
Bernadette Lafont is grumpy Paulette. Her character is changing during the film. With success and income she becomes a jolly grandmother. Money obviously makes people happy.
This film has a realistic setting, but a fairy tale narration. So we get a conciliatory narration, some fanciful characters and altogether a feel good experience. An amusing, not too demanding film.
5/10
Paulette has a very little pension and can hardly survive. She doesn't pay her bills, is a shameful dumpster diver and a racist, as she says that people with a darker skin live better. Her son in law is black and she hates her grandson. (What kind of mother will give her son to such a bitch?) From her son in law, who is working at the police, she learns that the wealth of the young people is from drug dealing. She wants to enter that business also and gets the chance when she catches a package of weed. The other dealers don't like the extra competition, so Paulette changes her business model. She processes the drugs in biscuits and cakes. However, when she refuses to sell her pain chocolat to school kids, the drug mafia is no longer amused. - In the end she transfers her bakery to Amsterdam.
Bernadette Lafont is grumpy Paulette. Her character is changing during the film. With success and income she becomes a jolly grandmother. Money obviously makes people happy.
This film has a realistic setting, but a fairy tale narration. So we get a conciliatory narration, some fanciful characters and altogether a feel good experience. An amusing, not too demanding film.
5/10
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