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Samba

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France · 2014
Rated R · 1h 58m
Director Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
Starring Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin
Genre Comedy, Drama

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who is feeling burnt out. Both struggle to get their dead-end lives back on track until fate draws them together.

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The A.V. Club by

On the evidence of their worldwide smash "The Intouchables," as well as their latest comedy-drama Samba, writer-directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano specialize in well-intentioned, crowd-pleasing bullshit.

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The Telegraph by Mike McCahill

Sy is such an attentive listener in close-up that you instantly grasp the frazzled Alice’s attraction; if she’s less well defined, Gainsbourg’s nervy intelligence and clenched-jaw resistance to sentimentality hold the interest nevertheless.

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The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic

It’s a love story set in a contemporary world brimming with immigration issues, but it manages to be neither political drama, nor bubbly romance, somehow getting away with being labeled as a comedy.

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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

It is refreshing that this story does not simply unravel into miserablism, but the film’s weird narrative leaps are implausible and jarring.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

Running a full reel longer than needed, the film’s balance of romance, humor and pathos starts to slip in the final stretch... though the emotional notes ring true.

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Time Out London by Trevor Johnston

Both actors are tremendous. Sy adds powerful dramatic shading to his usual irresistible charm, while Gainsbourg hints at a sunnier disposition beneath her volatile nervousness.

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