The Big Hit review – impressive French prison comedy-drama

A middle-aged, down-on-his-luck actor, lowered to educating Maori hakas as a part of corporate-bonding workout routines, takes a job working with prisoners in a high-security jail. Impressed by the expertise and their uncooked, unconventional vitality, he decides to placed on a manufacturing of Ready for Godot, on this amiable, French comedy drama, which is predicated on a real story. Considerably montage heavy and repetitive initially, the movie hits its stride within the sudden ultimate act. A dishevelled, barely defeated-looking Kad Merad is spectacular as drama instructor Étienne. However the standout performances are within the supporting solid of jail inmates, specifically the crackling nervous vitality of Pierre Lottin, because the jittery, borderline illiterate Jordan, and Sofian Khammes, who brings an unnerving mix of attraction and menace to gang boss Kamel.

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