Outstanding: a gifted film (critic)

An incredible success which, by seizing a serious subject (autism), imposes a little more the cinema of Toledano-Nakache.

France 2 Reprogram this Sunday an evening Extraordinary. Eric Toledano’s film and Olivier Nakache is carried by Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb. A crush for Firstin 2019. Note that the latter will compete with himself at the end of the weekend, since at 9:10 p.m., W9 rebroadcasts just as successful-well as very different- Wolf’s song.

César 2020: high school students reward extraordinary, from Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache

They are never where they are expected. We had left the duo of the gifted French comedy in the middle of marriage in The meaning of the partywe imagined them ready to shoot a new choral film doped with shock replicas which they have the secret. It was very bad to know them. Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache have chosen to deal with a serious subject: the inclusion of autistic people in our society. And it starts strong. In the streets, Malik race a young woman who has become uncontrollable under the worried gaze of passers -by. In the metro, Bruno comes to the aid of a young man who pulled the alarm signal and that RATP agents reprimand. The decor is planted. The filmmakers do not hide anything from reality. They filmed with actors with disorders, they mixed real educators and young actors. We discover autistic people, as we imagine, prey to violent crises. But little by little, the directors lead us to change their eyes on these young people. Of objectified subjects, “Malades”they make them individuals, personalities with their failures and their small victories. And it is the violence of the rejection of society that jumps to us in the face. We could fear the cocktail of good feelings, of those who encourage us heavily to change, of those who make us feel guilty. It is not. Because Extraordinaryit is first of all the account of a fight, that of two men at the head of two associations devoted to the reception of autistic people. These structures exist. They are called the silence of the righteous and the Ile-de-France relay. The film reverse the point of view and shows that it is health policy with regard to the disabled in France that is abnormal. “The world is divided into two; Those who help you and those who don’t look at you anymore. »» This very beautiful sentence pronounced by Hélène Vincent, who interprets the mother of an autistic, sums up the state of the management of heavy cases. The finesse of the duo writing is perfect here.

Integration

Above all, it benefits from the two protagonists, who, if they are inspired by real models (Stéphane Benhamou and Daoud Tatou), there are nonetheless eminently romantic characters. The two heroes sacrificed their lives to help others. Bruno, still between two urgent threads, did not take the time to fall in love. At 40 spent, he lends himself, in a bad grace, to blind dates organized by his entourage. These scenes are burlesque breathing in the combative account of his life. Vincent Cassel is masterful in this role: always in empathy, the sweet look, sure of his words with the autistic people and so tense when it comes to talking to women. It is one of his most beautiful compositions. Malik – We feel him more fleeting – has seen his children in bed more than a table. His time, he devotes it to forming young people to whom society no longer gives hope and to which it proposes to become their “Referent”. Become someone again by taking care of others was also the creed ofUntouchables. Reda Kateb turns out to be overwhelming and also manages to make the affection he carries to his friend Bruno. Finally, Extraordinary is a film on integration. To that almost impossible for young autistic people, Toledano and Nakache oppose that which unites supervisors of all religions and beliefs. Bruno, the practicing Jew, evolves in the midst of veiled women. Malik, the Muslim, eats casumer in the canteen held by loubavitch. The camera never lingers on the external signs of religion, and yet they are there, present. The filmmakers show us France as they dream of it, united in difference. If there is a message to the film, that’s this one.

Serious questions

What is the standard? Should we respect the rules if they are aberrant? How far should we stay within the framework? For the Nakache-Toledano duo, these questions are essential and irrigate the film. Through the investigation carried out by IGAS inspectors (Ministry of Health) on the somewhat out -of -the -frame practices that Bruno leads, they draw a more political thread that makes Extraordinary The most “serious” film to date. But the social maturity of the duo also knows how to give way to real moments of emotion thanks, in particular, to the use of the music and the interpretation of the young autistic actor Benjamin Lesieur, from the company Les Chapiteaux turbulents. In his last scene, dance, he offers this most beautiful and overwhelming end film that we could dream of.

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