Furo’s World

“Micmacs à Glasgow”

Thursday night, I went to see another film at the Glasgow Film Theatre, and not any film: a French one called “Micmacs à Tire-Larigot” from Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) starring Dany Boon, André Dussolier and Julie Ferrier.

This film tells the story of Bazil, a man that got his life ruined by two big weapon manufacturer. Indeed, his dad died of a landing explosion when he was a wee boy and, 30 years later, because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time he got caught in the middle of a gang fight and got shot by accident. The bullet didn’t killed him but stayed in his head and have now a chance to kill him anytime. Having lost home and work, he starts a new life in the street and meets some unusual friends. With them he will seek revenge against these warmongers who built the weapons that ruined his life but will always be fair and smart!

With this movie, Jeunet offers us a modern version of David vs Goliath that mixes humor, intelligence, irony and, as usual from him, a subtitle sense of using the details of our everyday life. Short version: I really liked it!

Bazil surrounded by two of his new friends, “Petit-Pierre” and “La Môme Cahoutchou”

Another thing that made this film special was the environment: the GFT is an old fashioned cinema (very similar to the Utopia in Toulouse) where you can find more independent and foreign films than blockbusters.

Inside the “Cinema 2″ at the Glasgow Film Theatre

I really like the environment and especially the moment when the curtains where opened for the first time: it felt like being part of the past
Another thing that I expected was that lots of people in the theatre were French. Easy to notice before the film because of the comments and even more easy during the film since we were the firsts to laugh out loud at the jokes (Subtitles were good but it always takes a bit more time to read a joke than hear it!).
At the end of the film and with a lot of French words in my head, it was difficult to believe the Glasgow is in Scotland!

The GFT is really a good place for goods cinematographic experiences and I can only recommend it!