The Little Tenant: Karin Viard sets the pace for this successful first film (review)
To be (re)watched this Sunday on France 2.
The Little Tenant is a 2016 French comedy that Première recommends. Especially if you like Karin Viard! Here is our review, originally published for its cinema release.
Three men and a bassinet: an unexpected success for a comedy that has become cult
Pregnant at 49, joy or misfortune? At the head of a dysfunctional family (happy unemployed husband, castrating mother, invasive stepmother, overly lucid granddaughter, estranged son), Nicole does not ask herself any questions: she cannot afford to keep her “small tenant”. Unless…
A feel-good movie actress par excellence, over-expressive, capable of going from burlesque to emotion in the blink of an eye, Karin Viard sets the pace for this successful first film and brings behind her a string of supporting roles in tune. Assisted in the writing by the duo Fanny Burdino-Mazarine Pingeot (already at work on The couple’s economy in an opposite noir register), Nadège Loiseau demonstrates real mastery, both in the management of narrative arcs as well as rhythm and ellipses (“it must be good to argue with your dad”says Nicole’s granddaughter in the square, a short scene but enough to understand her family situation and her psychology).
With its tender look at the characters and their background and its careful staging, The little tenant evokes neither more nor less The Aries family. With the same success at the end?
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