Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian workers led by an unforeseeable architect. In the mean time a former client decides he is in love with her, her son and daughter are becoming nearly homeless since the flat's walls are demolished, the architect has new plans every day, an irregular workers fall in love with Chantal too and dance with her daughter, Martin (the son) still continue to roller blade around... Could the works go forward in this mess?
Acting
Carole Bouquet's exasperated eye-rolls deserve their own award category.
Direction
Brigitte Roüan keeps five subplots spinning like a caffeinated plate-spinner.
Writing
The architect's daily impossible redesigns hit too close to reality.
Director
Brigitte Roüan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2005 satire of French bourgeois 'solidarity' with immigrants plays uncomfortably relevant today—Roüan was roasting performative allyship before Twitter made it a sport.
Carole Bouquet and director Brigitte Roüan had previously clashed on set during the 1980s; their reunion here was apparently just as tempestuous behind the scenes.
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