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L'Américain
2004 Comedy
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Credits
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Director: Bruno Amestoy, Patrick Timsit
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Script: Jean-François Halin, Jean-Carol Larrivé, Patrick Timsit
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Photo: Pierre Morel
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Music: Nicolas Errèra
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Cast: Lorànt Deutsch (Francis Farge,
alias l'Américain),
Thierry Lhermitte (Eddy),
Émilie Dequenne (Nelly),
Doud (Texas),
Paolo Seganti (Rick),
Mathias Mlekuz (Tennessee),
Richard Berry (Le professeur d'anglais),
Marianne Denicourt (Murielle),
Thomas Doucet (Tom),
Patrick Paroux (Nevada),
Jean-Marc Bihour (Massachussetts),
Daniel Isoppo (Alabama),
Salah Teskouk (Mohammed),
Kafka (José Bové),
Patrick Timsit (M. Sammarone)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 94 min
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Aka: The American
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Summary
Francis Farge, a 28 year old divorcee, decides to start a new life – in America.
When he is refused a visa to settle in the United States, he appeals to a lawyer, Eddy,
to help him realise his dream. If he can’t go to America, Francis decides he must
bring America to him.
Review
With three mediocre over-hyped films under his directorial belt, Patrick Timsit throws
himself headfirst into the nadir of cultural oblivion with this bargain basement comedy,
one of the most deplorable French films in over a decade. It's hard to find anything
good about this celluloid trash - the concept is ill-conceived, the plot seems to revolve
entirely about a French adolescent's caricatured view of the American way of life, the
characters are idiotic cartoon-like creations, and the end product is just an amazingly
bad jumble of half-baked ideas, a film that has absolutely zero entertainment value and
even less artistic merit. Why do French film producers think there's a market for
this kind of puerile nonsense?
© James Travers 2007
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