Cinema: "Mine of nothing", a good surprise

Text by: Siegfried Forster

Fashion is in social comedy right now in France. After the Invisibles, Rebels or the Class Struggle, here is Mine de rien. The story of two unemployed people in the north of France, interpreted by Arnaud Ducret and Philippe Rebbo, who decide to transform a disused coal mine into an amusement park.

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Before its release in France, this Wednesday, February 26, this French-style Full Monty already won the Grand Prix du public at the last Alpe d'Huez festival. For his first feature film, the actor Mathias Mlekuz chose the landscapes of slag heaps and red brick houses in the north of France, obvious for this grandson of a miner born in Lens. “ We couldn't film anywhere other than in Pas-de-Calais, where I was born, where I have my bearings and the main settings of my childhood. "

Between laughter and tears

Mine de rien depicts two forty- somethings dropped into their professional and sentimental lives who have a crazy idea: to create an amusement park in a disused coal mine. Between laughter and tears, the film recounts the struggle of these forgotten people to regain their dignity, like an echo of the great workers' struggles that have marked the history of the mining basin.

Without ever giving in to caricature, Mine de rien is a model of French social comedy and undoubtedly one of the good surprises of this beginning of the year.

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