Samba restaurant vine and hollywood7/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() No question, the film gives an entertaining and privileged glimpse into the immigrant’s world, starting with nimble DP Stephane Fontaine’s opening-scene pastiche of the “Goodfellas” tracking shot through a restaurant. See video: 'The View' Addresses Slut-Shaming on 'The Bachelorette': 'When Did Twitter Become the Sex Cops?'Ĭesar Award-winning Sy extends his reach as an actor and confirms his rising star power, and “Samba” is highly watchable mostly because of him, plus vivid turns by supporting players, especially his bubbly prole sidekick (Tahar Rahim of “The Prophet” in fun clown mode). Charlotte Gainsbourg plays an alpha-female businesswoman who’s had a nervous breakdown and now volunteers at the immigration center. This time, the masters of the low-cal rom-com make Sy a noble illegal immigrant named Samba, who aspires to be a Paris chef but is about to get deported. ![]() Social problems go down sweet and easy as a soothing low-calorie smoothie in “Samba,” their glossy new socially-conscious romantic comedy. So the filmmakers made another movie with a message: “Don’t worry, bourgeois! French minorities aren’t banlieue-burning banshees - we’re all best friends around here, let’s dance!” The Telegraph’s Mike McCahill usefully calls Nakache and Toledano the “diet Dardennes.” Writer-directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano hit a sweet spot with 2011’s near-half-billion-dollar global hit “The Intouchables,” starring Omar Sy as a white zillionaire quadriplegic’s black Algerian caregiver, pal, and life-restorer. ![]()
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