Film No. 26 (2022) March 28th. 4.00 PM Cinema 1. LUNA, Leederville.
"Did you fall for how scared I was as he came charging back at us?". (Vincent covers for the sheer fear he felt as a Polar Bear got riled after being shot by Vincent and his tranquilizer gun).
Most countries would be embarrassed to put their name to a film as silly as IRREDUCTIBLE. Not the French. And for good reason. The film, most aligned to a Norman Wisden farce, has a handful of major laugh out loud moments. But the stamp of French approval seems to make it all the more funny. It's the vibe! It's the vibe!
Jerome Commandeur is fast becoming the most marketable cinema commodity in France. Here he directs, writes and plays the starring role. He has created Vincent, a public servant (for life) hiding in the bowels of some unproductive department. When job cuts come, redundancy is offered, but he knows no other life. Vincent is not interested. His up-line Inger (Karina Beuthe Orr) has to find him a job. An Arctic posting should surely see him quit.
All of this story is being told by Vincent, in the present, via flashback in front of a Chief of a primitive South American tribe who have just captured him (and off-sider). So what is he doing there and why does he have to tell his life story in these circumstances?
Well, while he is completing his Arctic tasks he falls for the beautiful scientist he is guarding, Eva. On his first outing with her, he completes the task of tranquilizing a polar bear and then extracting a semen sample! He surprises himself with the ridiculousness of it all. From here Vincent takes us on his journey of love with Eva. Eva has 3 kids from 3 separate fathers. She is wonderfully uncomplicated considering the complicated domestic predicament Vincent falls into. Will Vincent become father number 4? It's a silly, fun frolic. 8GUMS.
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