- “Selfie”, a sketch film, makes fun of Internet users and their little faults.
- This comedy brings together many French talents such as Blanche Gardin, Elsa Zylberstein, Manu Payet and Max Boulbil.
- The spectator will recognize himself without difficulty in this very amusing charge.
Selfie characters all have in common that they are addicted to social media. Blanche Gardin portrays one of the most amazing heroines of this anthology as a mother who is developing her popularity on the Internet by exploiting the incurable disease of her son.
Thomas Bidegain, who directs her in this fierce humor segment, claims to be an Italian comedy to give life to a family completely obsessed with its image. "The whole point was to show that they are victims of a system that goes beyond them, which makes them attractive," explains the director of the Cowboys in the press kit. The five sketches of the film, produced by Thomas Bidegain, Marc Fitoussi, Thomas Aurouet, Cyril Gelblat and Vianney Lebasque, achieve this result through more or less cowardly humor.
Homo Numericus in the hot seat
In a world where the virtual is taking up more and more space, Homo Numericus, as the creators of the film call it, takes its number on the big screen. "The format of the sketch film made it possible to be more impactful in satire," insists co-producer and co-writer Julien Sibony. Parents who find themselves out of “followers” when their son miraculously heals are not the only ones to be laughed at by this cruel fantasy visited by a beautiful gallery of accomplices.
We all have a WhatsApp group that we can no longer follow and whose main purpose we have forgotten.
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Swamped by networks
Social networks include a trapped letter teacher (Elsa Zylberstein) who falls in love with a Youtuber who is not very focused on spelling (Max Boulbil), as well as a not really clever guy (Manu Payet) influenced by everything that algorithms advise him to buy. Dating applications used by a flirter (Finnegan Oldfield) or data leaks that panic the heroes of all sketches are also highlighted in these very well painted portraits.
A new idol
"We all look a bit like these disoriented characters, immersed in the savagery of networks and no longer knowing which god to devote to, insists Julien Sibony. Digital is our new idol. The spectator can recognize himself by having fun through the protagonists of Selfie , captured with great accuracy by fine observers of world 2.0. This very removed comedy is so funny that one feels an urgent desire to "like" it and to recommend it to all his "followers" once out of the room, his smartphone reconnected.
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