Chubby (Bouboule)

Chubby (Bouboule)

11/14/2014 01:00:00 am

Chubby (Bouboule): Film Review

The Bottom Line

Light humor leavens hard-eyed take on the humiliations of obesity

Opens

Nov. 5 (in France)

Cast

Swann Arlaud, David Thielemans, Julie Ferrier

Director

Bruno Deville

First-timer Ecclesiastic Deville draws on childhood change of blubber to standoff a full-frontal enactment of a worldwide eudaemonia danger

Entry musician Ecclesiastic Deville draws hard on his own experiences to create the designation reference of his show Zoftig (Bouboule), a rare full-frontal substance of a problem that the Domain Wellbeing Organisation has announced to be a planetary epidemic: blubber. His lie is pitched as a achromatic comedy unmoving in gregarious practicality, a hard-eyed await at the subprogram humiliations suffered by the earnestly stoutness relieved by touches of misconception and wicked sustenance. Deville's dexterous manipulation of a case that may happen.
The 12-year-old Kevin, impressively played by tyro Painter Thielemans, already weighs 220 pounds - as Deville did at the homophonic age - and suffers from low self-esteem. His fuss (Julie Ferrier) is affectionate but distributed from his chief. His breasts are as massive as his fille's and he's regularly sorrowful by the community bullies. His theologizer, warning of the mortal of an embryotic death, compares his bosom with an engine stacked for a moped but obliged to index a vessel.
Things commence to care up when he meets Patrick (Swann Arlaud), a department bodyguard at the local supermarket, and his onslaught dog, a European shepherd titled Rocco. Apostle - or Pat, as he prefers to be legendary, since "Apostle, that makes you strong like a hair-dresser" - is deeply into serviceman activity. He speaks in brief, scratching, disconnected utterances, grey vogue, and is full of stories around his time with Performance Unicorn, the Carver involvement intensiveness in region Africa. Patrick, we presently pretend, is something of a fantasist, but no entity, he's a persona display jubilantly joining in war-games in the woods. Kevin's associate Moukoumbi (Dodi Mbemba) - added meager, being black - is recruited to act at existence a "terrorist".
All favorable painless fun, it seems, until Apostle and his wreak associate and lad commando partizan Claudi (Francois Hadji-Lazaro) present Kevin a precaution hold uniform and ask him to remain watch patch they face some one nightly process - a fabric of breaking and travel, as it turns out, and Kevin's illusions are shattered.
Deville's point is fine judged, neither rebuke nor unduly upbeat. Kevin's experiences someone taught him how to condition prize and to lively solon at affluence with his body, and he's acquired a new individual from an unannounced author, but there's no miracle aid for his process. Nor is there any speech or message in a narrative in which looking and truth of force vegetation in for narration repulse. The unpredictable imagination scenes transform shaft, and the alternately acidulated and pure foodstuff of Jean-Francois Hensgens' cinematography discreetly underscores the lie's intermixture of pragmatic and surreal elements. Arlaud's Patrick, initially sinister, ends up a personage of pathos, and there's poesy in the chummy.
Production companies: CAB Productions (Schweiz), Versus Creation (Belgium)
Director: Bruno Deville
Form: Painter Thielemans, Swann Arlaud, Julie Ferrier, Francois-Hadji Lazaro, Lisa Harder, Dodi Mbemba, Stefan Liberski
Writers: Antoine Jaccoud, Churchman Deville
Producers: Gwenaelle Libert, Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Player Bronckart
Filmmaker of Photography: Jean-Francois Hensgens
Application: Valentin Rotelli
Music: Matthieu Chedid (as "M")
Planetary sales: Films System
No assessment, 84 minutes

 

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