Review of Samba

Of course this drama doesn't avoid many clichés, but it remains a very good picture, and proves that Omar Sy is a gifted Afro French actor. Since many years now, France produces movies about immigration and all the problems that migrants have in this country, most of them being intolerance and unemployment. Charlotte Gainsbourg is excellent too, convincing, poignant, human. It is a bitter sweet story, rather than simply sad, mainly realistic without being hopeless.