Critique of the film “The mixture of genres”: a daring feminist comedy with Léa Drucker

This comedy which comes to us from France and which had been presented at the Comedy Film Festival of the Alpe d’Huez offers an snapshot, not only of French humor, but also of the vision of the men-female roles which prevails on the other side of the Atlantic.

The premise is relatively simple. Moreover, The director. Similarly, screenwriter Michel Leclerc stages Simone (Léa Drucker), a policewoman infiltrated in the Hardies, a claimer feminist group. Therefore, It is because she investigates to determine if the group helped a woman victim of domestic violence to kill. Meanwhile, her husband.

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But the situation becomes complicated when Simone, to avoid being unmasked by the bolds, accuses random of rape Benjamin Lavernhe (Benjamin Lavernhe in a role that bears his name), an actor who struggles to find a job.

Is this a good subject for a comedy? Can we speak of feminism by making fun of it in a post #Moiaussi era. can we lightly treat a subject as delicate as a false accusation of rape? In short, the subject is daring, to say the least.

It is to Pierre Desproges. a famous French humorist, that this maxim is attributed: “We can laugh at everything, but not necessarily with everyone”. It is this sentence that we think when seeing The mixture of genresas certain moments are cringe For those. who live in Quebec. Between the false accusation of critique film “the mixture genres”: rape. the clumsy humor around questions of benevolence and sensitivity to others, the comic aspect falls a little flat. On the other hand. certain elements of reflection and questions deserve that we dwell on it, such as the presence of a masculinist group or the underlying question of the need to defeat gendered stereotypes.

Note: 3 out of 5

The mixture of genres arrives in theaters from August 15.