Our Day Will Come/ Notre jour viendra (EIFF)
This here is a picture of the director of Our Day Will Come, his name is Romain Gavras and he has some serious issues with people with red hair. Obviously he wants people to talk about this, I thought it may have been because he himself has red hair, but looking at this picture I can see that he DOES NOT. So I really have to wonder what his deal is. First he does that MIA video and now he makes a feature length film all about the matter – the man needs… some help.
Vincent Cassel does not hold back in the slightest as he embodies Patrick, a charming but essentially… crazy, racist man who comes across a distressed young boy called Remy (Olivier Bartelemy) who seems to have just discovered that he suffers from some anger issues after just beating up his mother. Patrick gives Remy a ride which then turns into a very bizarre road trip in which Patrick tries to teach Remy how to get himself taken seriously and be braver, to exploit his anger issues and most of all, embrace his redheadedness.
I’m sure the people will be divided into the shocked and the unshocked and then the people who claim that they weren’t shocked, but they thought it was frustrating how much the film tried to get under your skin repeatedly as its characters spiral out of control to offend you.
At the end of it I can admit, I laughed a fair bit, parts of the film were amusing but the beginning of the film was more promising than what followed it and by the end I left feeling that although the film was interesting I don’t think that I can say that I liked it.