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It is a new movie on Netflix and it has received several negative reviews that it does not deserve; it's fun and the performances are decent; It is advisable.

I watched this in English, and it was very good, very well done. I'm so glad it touched on many things people went through or are going through and did it in a way that was funny. If I had any complaint, could have been a little shorter. But overall it was very entertaining, funny, with a few good messages, nothing forced like many movies today.

Nice to see many people still think you can take a serious subject or situation and have fun with it. Today too many people are way too sensitive, some movies, comedians and sports personalities take us out of the real world for a moment away from reality so expect some of them to be irreverent, and characters that are stereotypes. If you don't like real life situations shown in a funny light or stereotypes, then don't watch. We are not all going to agree on everything, and that's OK.

Writers, directors, artist, comedians all should have no boundaries.

The film (surprisingly successfully) managed to make the most boring topic of 2020/21 watchable and entertaining. Some scenes are really hilarious. Well written.

Here comes the first funny COVID movie from the French master Danny Boon. Very entertaining where finally my wife and me could laugh again a lot and even with tears at the end.

The content and themes are original and well embedded in a high emotional comedy.

Congratulations to all and the staff. It is too underrated. Check it out you won't regret. Don't take all the negative reviews seriously here. 7/10.

Via this comedy, showing people behavior and react in a funny way during covid. It's totally realistic and reminds us the worst time in this era what had happened and most importantly, virus didn't beat us, human stay strong n love and caring around us.

Summary

Faced with a resurgent audiovisual industry that is strenuously reluctant to realize the existence of Covid-19 and worried about continuing to give a frozen image of the world in 2019, this French dramatic comedy that lifts this veil of denial is very welcome. He managed to review numerous topics of daily life during strict lockdown in the first stage of the pandemic, when not much was known about the transmission of the virus and vaccines were a very distant possibility. And it does so with remarkable rigor. Everything we see in this story will resonate and feel familiar.

Review

The film portrays the life of a group of neighbors in a typical Parisian building during strict lockdown in the first stage of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Currently, the resurgent audiovisual industry is reluctant to realize the existence of Covid-19, concerned about continuing to give a frozen image of the world in 2019. Not only are there no chinstraps, but the coronavirus is not even alluded to as a central element of everyday life even today.

In this context, this French dramatic comedy that lifts this veil of denial is welcome and manages to review numerous topics of daily life during strict confinement in the first stage of the pandemic, where not much was yet known about transmission of the virus and vaccines were still a very distant possibility. And it does so with remarkable rigor and detail. Everything we see in this story will resonate and feel familiar: how did its characters cope with strict quarantine? How did they position themselves against it and Covid-19? How did you operate in your family life, as a couple, and in your relationship with your neighbors?

The characters that make up this choral comedy are a scientific illustrator (Dany Boon, also director and co-writer), his wife, a lawyer (Laurence Arné, co-writer) and his little daughter; the husband of the janitor hospitalized with covid (Jorge Calvo); the owner of the building and his two children (Francois Damiens), a young married couple of a singer and a fitness teacher with claims of influencers (Alison Wheeler and Tom Leeb), a biochemist (Yvan Atal) who works in his laboratory to obtain a vaccine (giving rise to one of the best comic lines of the story and adjusted to scientific rigor -observing the blackboard in the laboratory); the owner of an obviously closed restaurant (Liliane Rovère, the veteran representative of Ten percent) and an enigmatic tenant.

I will leave it to the viewer to recognize (and recognize himself in) the topics, behaviors and postures of the characters; and it is not convenient to reveal them, since the achievement of this recognition is one of the strong points of the film (certain similarities with the realities lived outside of France will be surprising).

The narration draws on various registers of comedy: some witty and very funny, others with situations taken to a ridiculous perhaps too exaggerated (and very French), notes of physical comedy and moments when it becomes serious or sentimental. The performances are solvent and those corresponding to the illustrator's daughter and the owner's son (Rose de Kervenoaël and Milo Machado Graner) deserve a special mention.

This is surprisingly a funny film even if the setting maybe morbid or depressing, to say the least. The lockdowns all over the world conjure tragedy and suffering on a massive scale. But here comes a tiny film that gives us a glimmer of hope. To think that this was released in October 2021 when the Delta variant, highly transmissible and virulent as it is causing deaths and making life miserable for the rest of us.

Yvan Attal as Prof. Gabriel is truly funny. Yet what he's trying to achieve is very serious. Tony Boghassian who misses his wife; Martin, the hypochondriac; his lawyer wife; Diego, the porter; Agatha, the would-be composer, even Louise, the cafe owner, are funny and adorable in their own way.

It's also heartwarming, reminding us that even in such a situation where physical distancing is required, these neighbors (who don't really know much about each other) manage to become neighborly and learn to care for each other in the end.

Finally, a trivial question: does rue de l'humanite really exist in Paris? I Goggle-searched it but I couldn't find it. If it does, then it's a fitting locale for this story.

You can't see it right now, but this film will become a classic of the Covid19 era.

You will laugh and you will cry.

This is a story about a period of time in history in one specific city that trascends borderlines.

The movie has some funny scenes, but it could have been shorter and have less storylines.. there were too many of them that it became so slow and boring. And especially towards the end of the movie the storylines started to become ridiculous.

The plot of the movie is relatable for everyone and I liked how they showed nearly every sort of person in the Corona Lockdown: Too much worried/frightened, too little worried, annoyed by the others, worried about jobs and businesses and more.

Nevertheless the plot is predictable, the jokes don't fit always and the biggest thing to criticize: It is WAY to long with about 2 hours runtime. 80-90 minutes would have been much better. Unfortunately it gets boring very soon because of the predictable plot and the long runtime.

One of the best lockdown related movie. I wonder why so low rating for this... It must be high but don't understand what ppl didn't like it....

You can relate every scenes and character of what we experienced during lockdown...

Movie ended up with a good note...

Give a try..

What a waste of time. Actors can't act. Story is a joke. Please don't watch this ridiculous French movie. And 2 hours long. I was crying to have made it till the end. Another example of stupid Netflix productions for movie that will never make it to theater. Where is comedy in 2021?

An okay, artistic, exploration of what confinement meant for a small group of people living together in the same building. Maybe too early as we are still going through the pandemic... Some good moments, but a lot of predictable ones.

Although I'm not a big fan of Danny Boon I did enjoy watching this lockdown comedy. He played the annoying paranoid character so that fitted him well. It was funny to see how some people got completely brainwashed during the "pandemic" and him walking with a scuba mask in a store wasn't even that far fetched as I witnessed that for myself here in Spain. Belgian actor François Damiens (better known for his sketches of L'embrouille) played the character he plays the best, that is the flamboyant and arrogant know-it-all. His best comedy is still Dikkenek (2006) but in this one he wasn't bad either. Yvan Attal on the other hand was overacting which was annoying. But the most annoying thing in Huit Rue De L'Humanité (or Stuck Together for the English title) was the song Alison Wheeler was repeatedly singing. I get it that they wanted it to sound irritating but at one point it got really irritating. We didn't have to wait long for a movie about Covid, in fact I watched already several ones, from bad to good. This one I would qualify as a good comedy showing different characters we all encountered during the global lockdown.

We really enjoyed this movie. We laughed a lot but it got some dramatic and serious parts as well, as the topic is the pandamic. Very good acting as well.

European movies got some high quality, which we often enjoy more then the Hollywood blockbusters.

Movie begin by a speech from Emmanuel Macron. After, ten second, my computer had exploded. I'm not compatible with it. :-) After the decision, he took this day, liberty was dead. During the next months, I made a burn-out.

My brain boycott this.

It's a movie about people during lockdown. You wish would all catch COVID and spare the world from their useless presence. If that was the point of the movie, then good job Netflix. Otherwise, eh...

This was real joy and fun to watch from beg till end. All the characters were funny. Everything was good, from Plot, dialogue to performance. The French always been good in making comedy, good to see they haven't lost their touch.

I'm happy that so many people are so eager to remind the times of the lockdown as if we would be in a normal situation now. More I get older and more I find that a lot of people are totally stupid.

I don't care this movie and my score doesn't want to represent my opinion about this movie, but about the idea of showing something that it's not remembering something that happened long time ago, like the WWI or WWII or other, that hopefully won't happen again (I'm not anymore sure about though), but something that is still afflicting our society and we can't know what will happen next and how many people will go to die before writing the word end (it's not a movie). A comedy? A horror movie, dear idiotic people and joking on that it's not nice at all!

The characters are funny, annoying, and lovable. They showed the emotions I've been through during the lockdown in 2020. The ending made me cry my eyes out.

Bad jokes, overacting, a pointless story that leads to nothing, humour on the level of children's films, poor staging, in short a cheap film in all respects.

Beautiful, well written, entertaining, cannot understand why some people didn't like it! Everybody should watch this lovely, very human good portrait of the worst and best moments we all experienced durante the COVID times.