In the absence of narrative urgency or fresh storytelling devices, Grand Départ lives or dies with Marmaï’s performance, but like everything else around him, he’s merely adequate.
Grand Départ
France · 2013
1h 23m
Director Nicolas Mercier
Starring Pio Marmaï, Jérémie Elkaïm, Eddy Mitchell, Chantal Lauby
Genre Comedy
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A tender coming of age story of two brothers thrown into turmoil by their father's declining health, GRAND DÉPART reveals a young man looking to his future, while struggling with his past. Between his domineering brother Luc (Jérémie Elkaïm) and his incorrigible father (César winner Eddy Mitchell), Romain (Pio Marmaï) finds that he can't go on being the boy who does what is expected of him. Approaching 30, Romain decides that it's time to face his family as an adult and, in the process, learn more about himself than he ever imagined.
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The New York Times by Andy Webster
Although the subject is potent, the film, directed with a seemingly effortless commercial acumen, doesn’t burrow deeply.
The director, Nicolas Mercier, has failed to grasp how repellent his own protagonist seems to us. By the end, he's tipped his hand, and what seemed an incisive portrait is revealed as oddly skewed.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
More notable for its small, incisive moments than as a moving depiction of the way that familial relationships are affected by life crises, the film makes only a minor impact.
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