The first half of this French film is passably good, with some funny punchlines and plenty of clichés about a white Catholic family, with four daughters, all married to minority husbands. The second half is a rehash of the clichés.
Clavier has some very good moments in that first half, but even he fades in the second half. The actress playing his wife also has some good lines, the daughters are all beautiful, and that accounts for the two stars I give this film.
Direction is pedestrian, cinematography substandard, very poor script.
The actors playing the minority husbands are substandard, and they get no help the very underdeveloped characters they portray and from a flat script.
But the worst and, to me, unforgivable, part in Qu'est-ce qu'on a encore fait au Bon Dieu?, is that it is a very primitive and populist piece of social propaganda.
Supposedly, these minorities are very welcome and get to do what they like in loving French families -- even the biggest ignoramus about France knows that it is not like that in any country on the planet Earth.
The inner circle jokes about French social security, French President Macron, France's social and economic problems, and racial divides certainly mean something to the French, and in the end France is a wonderful country that all want to come back to, despite the high taxes, national health service deficiencies, joblessness, etc
And last, but far from least, inevitably it is money that saves the day in the end. The rich parents in law throw away good money after bad to keep their beloved minority sons in law in France.
In a nutshell, at best this film is for the French only, but I doubt that the majority of free-thinking French citizens see it as a reflection of their great nation.
Clavier has some very good moments in that first half, but even he fades in the second half. The actress playing his wife also has some good lines, the daughters are all beautiful, and that accounts for the two stars I give this film.
Direction is pedestrian, cinematography substandard, very poor script.
The actors playing the minority husbands are substandard, and they get no help the very underdeveloped characters they portray and from a flat script.
But the worst and, to me, unforgivable, part in Qu'est-ce qu'on a encore fait au Bon Dieu?, is that it is a very primitive and populist piece of social propaganda.
Supposedly, these minorities are very welcome and get to do what they like in loving French families -- even the biggest ignoramus about France knows that it is not like that in any country on the planet Earth.
The inner circle jokes about French social security, French President Macron, France's social and economic problems, and racial divides certainly mean something to the French, and in the end France is a wonderful country that all want to come back to, despite the high taxes, national health service deficiencies, joblessness, etc
And last, but far from least, inevitably it is money that saves the day in the end. The rich parents in law throw away good money after bad to keep their beloved minority sons in law in France.
In a nutshell, at best this film is for the French only, but I doubt that the majority of free-thinking French citizens see it as a reflection of their great nation.