Barbaque

The movie already has a lot of titles - I wouldn't be surprised if it gets this one too somewhere (hey pass on some money if you use that! Just saying). Kidding aside - well not entirely, because the movie thrives on humor. Dark humor, but humor nonetheless. And is built on broken and fragile relationships.

The director is also the main actor in this. And while he had an even funnier hairstyle in the video message he sent to the filmfest I attended, he still looks funny and trustworthy. Which of course is a great contradiction to all the terrible things that he is "forced" to do.

If you are easily offended and triggered the movie may not be for you. The movie also says a lot about us as a society. The way we treat each other - there are a few themes hidden inside the movie that it explores quite nicely.

This darkly humorous comedy is a great success. It tells the story of a butcher couple who are on the verge of breaking up, but whose relationship is saved when they are confronted with a new meat that they will serve to their customers who love it. Fabrice Eboué dares a lot in this politically incorrect film where culinary beliefs are confronted with other beliefs. The film is rich in showing terrorism, sectarianism, beliefs, racism, in different forms, and always in a disrespectful way. It is good to see that it is possible to shake up the politically correct way of thinking. The film also makes fun of the fascination that serial killers provoke.

Fabrice Eboué is both an excellent actor and an excellent director. And finally, by his treatment of the various characters, manages to make this couple sympathetic. As well as the character of the policeman who investigates, while eating all the time! It is not subtle, but the subject does not call for subtlety. And it's funny and horrible, amusing and jubilant, and horrible in the gory sense of the term, even if Fabrice Eboué avoids bloodshed and is more in the suggestion (which does not harm the film at all, on the contrary). A film that is good for its directness and its extremity. Because Fabrice Eboué goes to the end of his subject and the end of his characters.

The film contains its moments of anthology, including the montage-sequence of the animal report, for example, or the first meeting during a meal of the boyfriend of the couple's daughter.

In the black humor register, bloody, lethal humor, I admit that I prefered C'EST ARRIVE PRES DE CHEZ VOUS, starring Benoit Poelvoorde, it was more disturbing than this one, maybe too comedy oriented. But it is daring for the French movie industry to produce this kind of film, which is also speaking of a modern issue, at least in France: vegan actvism. It is entertaining, well edited, fast paced, with sharp dialogues but with sometimes weak acting from supporting characters. You can watch it during your meal, even if you cook and eat red meat, this is not really disgusting, not nasty enough. To summarize, comedy takes more place than dark and bloody elements. It remains worth watching though.

Really very well done with comic quid pro quos and very funny dialogues but extremely black and gory humor. Some scenes can be very disturbing for sensitive people. It seems to have been made by French people especially for French people and not for American prudes. If you don't like it, definitely don't go see it and don't comment. You have been warned.

Stylish French black huomor movie. Dont expect much horror, more is a very good comedy.

As French Comedies I had seen lately this on of the best. Subject homself is very sensitive for. Vegans. Not reccomend it for vegans :)