Our Day Will Come

Film Review by Chris Fyvie | 26 Jul 2011
Film title: Our Day Will Come
Director: Romain Gavras
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Olivier Barthelemy, Justine Lerooy, Vanessa Decat
Release date: 29 July
Certificate: 18

Enfant terrible of the music video world, Romain Gavras, writes and directs his feature debut, featuring perennial cinematic nutcase Vincent Cassel. The result is, unsurprisingly, a bit strange — but deliciously so. Ostracised copper-knob Rémy (Barthelemy) escapes the clutches of his odious family to fall under the care of similarly follically-cursed, predatory misanthrope Patrick (Cassel). Under the wing of his new mentor, Rémy embarks on an increasingly outlandish, nihilistic and violent road-trip encompassing his sexual awakening, an attempted liberation of the oppressed Franco-gingers and a return to his assumed spiritual home of Ireland. Seriously.

The episodic structure of the road movie allows Gavras to work in a form with which he is comfortable – essentially a collection of bizarre vignettes. Frequently hilarious, often difficult to watch and never less than fascinating, he’s concocted a provocative tour-de-force. Cassel is on familiar, deranged form, but often allows the youngster to take centre stage, remaining near catatonic for much of the second and third act, with the horror of his subsequent outbursts thus all the more magnified. [Chris Fyvie]



Note: This article was written by a redhead, therefore the racist slurs copper-knob and follically-cursed have been deemed acceptable by the editor, who is also a day walker.  

Our Day Will Come screens theatrically at the ICA, London 29 Jun - 18 Aug and is release on DVD/Blu-ray 22 Aug

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