We Need a Vacation
by Didier Bivel
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Actor: Ibrahim Koma, Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Siraboula Sissoko, Thomas Pitiot, Thylda Bar?sDirector: Didier Bivel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Picture This!
Movie Reviews of We Need a Vacation
Movie Review: A dissapointment...to say the least...
Summary: 1 Stars
First of all, the picture shown here is not at all the one you will see
on the dvd; secondly, I find it profoundly disturbing that amazon com would even suggest, among it's "relevant" tags, descriptions such as "gay, full frontal nudity, boys nude", well..see for yourself; I wouldn't have ordered it if I would have read these false tags; there is no gay subject matter, no unnecessary nudity, none of those titillating adjectives amazon uses to attract what one may wonder: weirdoes?
Getting back to the movie, it is well made, well photographed, well acted for sure but again, I find it very strange that such praise is written in the sense of "heartwarming, refreshing".
It is nothing of the sort; two little boys are bored; it's summer and they cant afford to go to camp like their friends; so they stay home,
nothing much to do, nothing much to say;(been there, done that, like most kids); one of the boys is brutally beaten by his older "thug" brother, a very disturbing scene; I dont care for that fake "cin?ma v?rit?"; I wont tell you how the movie ends, not to kill your buzz but it's not a happy ending, typical of the french who take the long road around to say absolutely nothing new or significant, most of the time. I'm being harsh, I know, but I've had my fill of cinematic nonsense.
If you like that old style mock "cin?ma d'auteur", by all means, waste your money. But if you expect, like Le Figaro says (I cant imagine why)
that it is "refreshing and heartwarming", well, if you like to see sad kids and empty lives colored with gratuitous violence,well... I guess to each his own.
I would rather highly recommend "You are not Alone" and "Les Aiguilles Rouges" in the french repertoire; the first is a dutch film that was way ahead of it's time (and still is) and deals with taboo subject matter in a tastefull way, as seen from the young teenagers of the flower power era; a True Masterpiece; and "Les Aiguilles Rouges" is a true story of boy scouts who, neglected by their adult leaders, are left to fend for themselves, often in peril for their lives (but they make it safely back to camp); the psychological underlayers and confrontations between different types of personalities make it a very interesting character study; not a dull moment in a movie that has many well placed silences that speak louder than words and bring you back to your own childhood and
questionings and balance between friendship, confrontation, fear, self doubt and mostly, a certain natural courage that overcomes the obstacles thrown their way.
Sorry but "We need a vacation" has been done ad nauseam and this one deserves to be forgotten.
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