So far everything is fine is a real unstoppable feel good comedy (critic)
Gilles Lellouche and Malik Bentalha are impeccable in front of Mohamed Hamidi’s camera.
The story of So far, so goodto review this Tuesday evening on NRJ12, is simple: to escape a sanction for tax fraud, the boss of a Parisian Com ‘agency must move his offices and his employees in the worst district of La Courneuve. When he arrives there, it’s a nightmare: burned cars, racketeer on all floors … The film will stage the meeting between this start-up of him (Gilles Lellouche Impeccable) and a young vaguely dog master’s suburbs who will serve them as a deposit and a fixer (Malik BentalhaPerfect). Sitting the comedy can start.
On paper is sewn with white thread: the shock of opposites. A rebatu but explosive theme since recently, Neuilly his mother, his mother had shown how these kinds of ideas could quickly sink into an opportune caricature and cynicism. Mohamed Hamidi’s film is much finer and clever than that. Funny also and inhabited by a real ideal. It is especially very successful because it floats a scent of Italian comedy there. Hamidi knows how to tell in a few plans the daily resourceful, the buzzing solidarity and the energy of the collective which makes it possible to survive in these suburbs. We are never in satire, but rather in a tender humor (which knows how to be corrosive) which goes quickly, propelled by the war machines that are its actors.
So far everything is fine: Gilles Lellouche and Malik Bentalha in front of our 3rd trainee
Because what matters is not only the message (we will get out of it by helping and mixing our differences), these are the characters, all perfectly typed and who form a beautiful band of clowns as at the best time of Ritual comedy. Lellouche and Bentalha seem to organize their failure (professional or personal) as others are created letters of nobility: with consistency and application. They struggle in ruined areas and their clumsiness affects the sublime. Bentalha, Pierre Richard 2.0, is amazing with dogs freaked out of canides. By his side we find the agency’s right arm, severe but just, played with a sense of tempo ideal by Sabrina Ouazani. We come across a band of gypsies who tries to professionalize his shit traffic, an accountant who turns Zen and Krishna, a more true than life, kids who hang out and who act as an ancient choir. And in the midst of all this: Imperial Lellouche, comfortable in all registers, Cabot when it is necessary, moving when necessary, and succeeding in linking his team. The whole thing is packed by valves and gags that hit the bull’s eye without ever being afraid of the shot or politically incorrect (one of the characters tries to diversion and to attract the attention of the cops by repeating shy “Nique the police”and ends up yelling a “Allahu Akbar” which bowes the condes illico). A real unstoppable feel good comedy.
So far everything is fine has received the Audience prize at the 2019 Alpe d’Huez Festival. Here is his trailer:
Parody of Pascal Praud: Malik Bentalha publishes the hilarious storage of the sketch
