Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008)

Release date: 2008-02-27
Country: France
Language: French
Director: Dany Boon
Production Co: Pathé Renn Productions, Hirsch, Les Productions du Chicon
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 7.1/10
Length: 1h 46min

Storyline

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell...

Plot Keywords

alcoholic drink, alcohol, marriage proposal, bell tower, drunken man, post office, prejudice, social satire, drunkenness, famous score, spoof, family relationships, culture clash, domineering mother, french fries, urination, local blockbuster, postman, europe, 2000s

Short Review

There's nothing revolutionary or artistically groundbreaking here, but there's something reassuring in the fact that this is what the French have anointed as their biggest hit. Vive la (low-key) diffrence.