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La famille Bélier
A young woman with deaf parents discovers she has an amazing singing voice. However, chasing her singing career would mean leaving her family and taking her first steps towards adulthood. Would she do it?
2 May 1964, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
17 January 1973, Uccle, Belgium
27 November 1976, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
January 01, 2016
The humour - there are quite a few good one-liners - and the warmth, the charm, the pathos, and the topic make it a pleasure.December 21, 2015
Take tissues and leave cynicism at home.January 09, 2017
Between La Famille Beliér's frequent juvenile jokes, redundant subplots and comically misguided performances, it seriously needed some work before going into production.December 16, 2015
As well as ensuring that the film avoids the cloying sweetness of Hollywood's seasonal offering, Love the Coopers, the Beliers' idiosyncrasies strike a gently subversive note.April 05, 2016
More interested in appeasing an older audience that already treats the condition as a wondrous curiosity, rather than moving them even an inch outside their comfort zone.September 10, 2015
The beauty of the otherwise formulaic La Famille Belier is the way this affable crowdpleaser manages to twist its overplayed setup.April 02, 2016
The heartening story of a young girl realising her singing talent is tempered by the borderline offensive portrayal of her deaf and mute farming parents ... as a pair of clowns that serve as the butt of most jokes.May 16, 2016
An impressively handled if conventional comedy-drama.December 29, 2015
The careful handling here ensures that we're never invited to laugh at the protagonists' supposed 'disability', making this more about everyone's struggle to be heard, whether they're deaf or not.September 10, 2015
[Viard and Damiens] manage to project a lot of warmth despite the fact both have no spoken dialogue and their characters tend to be extremely direct.December 17, 2015
Good comedy rests on genuine dramatic foundations, a rule this film surely affirms