With his wife – the screenwriter Baya Kasmi -, the director Michel Leclerc has the gift of concocting charming comedies which, without always showing great subtlety, have the merit of conveying reflections on social friction (Class struggle), politicians (TV gaucho) and cultural (The names of people). The mixture of genreswhich draws its source from the repercussions of the #MeToo movement, is no exception.
Police with conservative ideas, Simone (Léa Drucker, still perfect) infiltrates the Hardies, a group of feminist activists, whom she suspects of having helped a woman to kill her violent husband. Confronted with the words of the radical Marianne (Judith Fire) and the sad family situation of the baffler Sofia (touching Melha Bedia, Ramzy’s sister), Simone is increasingly difficult with the machismo of her colleagues, among whom her husband is also found (Vincent Elbaz). Only her young colleague (Félix Moati) seems sensitive to the cause of women.
Photo Stéphanie Branchu, provided by Axia Films
Bedia Dream, Lea Drucker et Judith Chemia dans The mixture of genresby Michel Leclerc
Following an aborted demonstration, the Hardies suspect that Simone is a mole. In order to convince them of the contrary, she tells them that she had rape. At random, she then accuses Paul (Benjamin Lavernhe, endearing lunar clown), a failed actor she meets at the school that their children frequent. Father at the dedicated home and faithful husband of a famous actress (Julia Piaton), Paul is the antithesis of the toxic male.
Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc cheerfully mock wokists, feminists, masculinists and defenders of patriarchy through a plethora of unidimensional characters, embodied with APLOMB by a distribution in tune. In short, whether they are left, right or center, all spend a bad quarter of an hour there, the writers having fun pointing the contradictions of each current of thought. Under the cover of lightness, the authors tackle serious themes, such as conjugal violence, feminicides and police indifference in the face of the female condition.
Dramatic comedy unbridled at the rhythm premiums, The mixture of genres Includes some confusing moments, some deliciously offbeat, where the filmmaker takes off the story as if he wanted to establish a direct connection with the spectator. So he balances a night meeting between Virginie Despentes (who seems to enjoy playing his own role) and Paul, completely drunk, as well as some musical beaches with the suave Vincent Delerm, who also signs the music of this rather pleasant film despite a finish which leaves perplexed.
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Dramatic comedy
The mixture of genres
Michel Leclerc
Avec Léa Drucker, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melha Bedia
1 h 43
