Donald Rice, UK
Fiction, 2007, 19'
A moving plan shows us some tabloid covers, and this is our first meeting with Bob Geldof, the rock star famous all over the world for his charity actions. The camera is in Bob Geldof's Limousine. An stupid circonstances leads Bob Geldof to get stranded in a look-alike convention, alone, without money or anything to proove his identity... His only way to pay for a taxi would be to win the look alike contest...
The situation is simple, and the realisator has the subtility not to do too much from it. There are enough situations to create laugh without having to underline it with gags and funy scenes. The humour is in the atmosphere, the roles, the actors, and everything seems very natural, which enforce the laugh.
The actor who embodies Bob indeed has something of an old rockstar, and his physical credibility is onfirmed by his acting. He is the serious character in the film, the one who is in trouble and has to settle it. He is confronted with some locals (as the perfect owner of the motel), and with the look alike... Meeting Saddam Hussein in the bathroom can be surprising when you're no aware of the convention, but the reception hall crowded with Marilyn, John-Paul II, Mickael Jackson, Audrey Hepburn and so is a rare spectacle. And of course, there is another candidate for Bob Geldof...
Will he be able to hear all the comments about himself, and to sing in front of a public that expect someone who look like him, and is more ready to accept a caricature that the real person ?
This is a great film. Great actors, great script, very funny and subtle. It was awarded by the Prix Fernand Reynaud, given to the best comic film of the selection.
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Does it look like Grosse Fatigue or Jean-Philippe ???
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