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A l'attaque! (2000)
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This sunny and anarchic protest comedy combines anything-goes whimsy with a steely political irreverence. It's about how ordinary working people can maintain their autonomy, dignity and spirit in the face of the modern world's arbitrary, overwhelming acts of Mammon - both in life and in cinema. Thus the film not only spins a yarn about an extended family of garage mechanics caught between an overdue bank loan and a runaway contractor's bad debt, it also regularly pulls back a creative level to poke fun at the story's altercating screenwriters (actors stand in for Guédiguian and his regular co-writer Milesi) - one intent on writing an uplifting realist fable true to the lives it represents, the other a sucker for the narrative temptations of blow-jobs and firearms. If the main drama fingers capitalist globalisation as a process of divide, deprive and rule, the film's explicit interrogation of art and entertainment values manifests the invigorating idiosyncrasy of homegrown folk and fare.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Producer: Gilles Sandoz, Michel Saint-Jean, Robert Guédiguian
Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Frédérique Bonnal, Patrick Bonnel, Jacques Boudet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Alain Langlet full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 94 mins
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