Anne Marivin, Dany Boon, Kad Merad

Focuses on the people who live in north France, making fun of the region's unflattering stereotypes to reveal the warmth of the people. A post office manager in Provence is punished when his superiors...( read more  read more... ) reassign him north. When he hears that north does not mean Lyons or even Paris, he despairs. Colleagues tell him of a freezing dark place where it rains all year, people live in red-brick terrace houses and dunk Maroilles cheese in their coffee. When he arrives in Bergues, his car collides with Antoine Bailleul, a postman and carillon ringer in the town belfry. He believes that Antoine has a fractured jaw, but it is just his accent. The outsider, of course, finds that the Ch'timi have hearts of gold and are friendly to strangers, unlike Parisians or southerners.

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18,138 ratings

Unrated, 1 hr. 46 min.

Directed by: Dany Boon

Release Date: February 8, 2008

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  • April 15, 2009
    Thoroughly enjoyable and contagiously funny. Solid French comedy.
  • July 30, 2008
    Alright, so it made about twenty million bucks in France alone, so it MUST be some good, right?

    Yeah. It's good. And it's funny. Boon sure knows how to stage delightfully likeable (and unlikeable) characters in an offbeat environment. The laughs come quick, and most of the tim...( read more)e, they're subtle and effective thanks to the cast's enormous comic timing.

    But I, bitter cinephile, was most definitely annoyed by the many, many narrative shortcuts employed throughout. I understand this is very much a light comedy that cannot possibly last more than two hours, but there a pacing issues (some about being too quick, or being somewhat sluggish) that could easily have been avoided if it swayed a little farther from the conventions of the genre. For such a phenomenal success, I eexpected something a bit more revolutionary, not the perfect formula served perfectly.

    But, *sigh*, you should see it. It's highly enjoyable, despite its conventional screenplay. The dialogue is engaging, it's pretty to look at (and Merad's perfectly cast mug is a high point for me) and the audience explodes with laughter (sometimes even too much, in my case).
  • September 26, 2009
    That comedy is definitely worth watching. Funny story with joyful characters.
  • August 13, 2009
    Had to laugh really often :)
  • May 29, 2009
    Surely, it is better in the original version, but in any case, very funny.
  • May 26, 2009
    Really funny. It deserves the acclamations received in festivals.
  • April 18, 2009
    Tres bonne comedie ! J'adore ce drole d'accent ! Dany devrait tourner plus souvent des films !...
  • April 13, 2009
    oh great! i had to watch this for cultural studies. couldn't find any subtitled version so watched it in french...it's not funny whats all the commotion?
  • April 4, 2009
    Slight, but amusing film. The parts where the wife goes to visit are hilarious, and I give full marks to whoever did the translating for the subtitltes!

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  • Ffanny
    January 5, 2009
    Lmao Whoever suggested Le Lièvre de Vatanen (Vatanen's Hare) on this Movie must have no Idea of European Movies. Just because it is French.

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