Cinematography:
Patrick GhiringhelliCast:
Fabrice Eboué, Audrey Lamy, Anouk Grinberg, Pauline Clément, Louise Coldefy, Sami Outalbali, Victor Meutelet, Mathieu Lourdel, Yasin Houicha, Ayumi Roux (more)Plots(1)
A one in 19 million chance. The probability of being hit by a meteorite is much higher than the chance of winning the lottery. For our lucky winners, the dream quickly turns into a nightmare, and their lives shatter in a spectacular fireworks display of this thrilling black comedy. A harsh and wild observation that winning millions often doesn’t pay off. The characters in the story have won, and they pay dearly for it! The Spanish Wild Tales has its French continuation, and you’re in for a geyser of unpredictable events and screenplay ideas. (MFF Cinematik Piešťany)
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Lucky Winners is a darkly humorous probe into the world of people whose (mis-)fortune has led to a large pile of money falling into their laps. It's perhaps a bit of a shame that the individual stories were conceived separately and are not connected in some way, but I was still really interested in each of the episodes about (un-)lucky people. The stories, which even life itself could not have come up with, amused me and sent shivers down my spine at the same time. The one with the revenge from beyond the grave almost seemed like one from Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. I originally gave the film three stars, but with some hindsight I'm raising the rating, as I quite liked this sometimes really wacky French ride.
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This new French comedy didn't quite sit right with me. I guess I'm fed up with Francophone social realism, no matter the genre. Once it's about finding a solution to a pre-lost battle in Two Days, One Night, then it's about testing whether it's a divine matter in The Brand New Testament, but the point is, they're all still Invisibles. So if I'm supposed to meet again with a bunch of insignificant little people, this time turned upside down by winning the lottery, I don't tend to laugh as much. A film in the style of Wild Tales.
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