Bis Repetita on France.TV: a great comedy between PROFS and Les Beaux Gosses (review)

Émilie Noblet’s first film notably brings together Louise Bourgoin and Xavier Lacaille. A success.

Broadcast Sunday evening on France 2, Bis Repetita is available for free streaming on the France Télévisions website for one month. Don’t miss this comedy acclaimed by Première when it is released in cinemas in 2024. Our review:

Presented in competition at the 2024 Alpe d’Huez Festival, Repeat is a gem, the kind of comedy that we would like to see more often in theaters. Funny, moving, intelligent, supremely embodied. It is flawless which owes as much to its performers as to its script, its direction and a little to… Amélie Oudéa-Castera.

We know this well: when it comes to cinema, the timing of releases is partly guided by chance. But we must still salute the exceptional sense of the agenda of this presentation at Alpe d’Huez: while the Minister of National Education gets stuck in her lies and pushes the contempt towards teachers quite far, Émilie Noblet arrives with her film which mixes and reflects (implicitly but in an intelligent and precise manner) on the virtues of teaching, educational separatism, elitism and above all the discomfort of teachers. Hello ! We hear you grumbling from your living room: and the comedy in all this? This is the primary virtue of Bis Repetita: on a very serious subject that the film will never try to dodge, it succeeds in being at the same time a true romantic comedy, a teen movie (the five kids are EXCEPTIONAL), a portrait of a woman adrift and a pure comedy of teachers. Noblet’s feat? Manage to balance all these registers.

And now, on the board…