Supereinfachschwierig

Paula (Louane Emera) lives on a farm in the French countryside with her family. She is the only one in her family born with the gift of hearing, so she has to interpret between her mother, father and brother and the rest of the village. Out of boredom she enters the school choir, where her music teacher Monsieur Thomasson (Eric Elmosnino) discovers her gift for singing. He even thinks she is good enough to enter a musical school in Paris, but Paula is afraid of leaving her family.

Louane Emera et Eric Elmosnino in La famille Bélier

La famille Bélier is a nice comedy which impresses most with its actors and likable characters and less with its story, which is a bit jumbled. While some parts really impressed me with their originality and depth other parts of it were very shallow and cliché. The chemistry between Paula’s mother (Karin Viard) and father (François Damiens) is great and their arguments in sign language are impressively acted. I like that all of the characters have their own individual flaws, which make them very relatable and human. If they would have worked on the script a little more and cut some scenes a little shorter this could have made a very good movie, but like that it is “only” a nice comedy.