Those Happy Days

Nos jours heureux

France

2006

103 Min

Color

1.85:1

French

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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DIR Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano

PROD Bruno Chiche, Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky

SCR Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano

CAST Jean-Paul Rouve, Marilou Berry, Omar Sy, Lannick Gautry, Julie Fournier, Guillaume Cyr, Joséphine de Meaux, Jacques Boudet

It’s hard to say if the kids or the counselors need more supervision at the second-rate summer camp in this comedy from France. Vincent (Jean-Paul Rouve) runs “Ces Jours Heureux,” a camp for kids in rural France, and as he gears up for the summer season, he has to round up a new staff of counselors to look after the campers. Vincent ends up with six eccentric twenty-somethings, including self-styled ladies’ man Daniel (Lannick Gautry), Canadian party animal Truman (Guillaume Cyr), potty-mouthed lapsed Catholic Caroline (Josephine de Meaux), pretty but non-ambitious Lisa (Julie Fournier), handsome black guy Joseph (Omar Sy), and Nadine (Marilou Berry), who is made the camp medic by virtue of her status as a medical school drop-out. While the campers have to contend with bad weather, worse food and extended periods of boredom, the supposedly more mature counselors hardly fare much better, and occasionally face visits from the cops over the camp’s various safety violations. Nos Jours Heureux (aka Those Happy Days) was written and directed by the team of Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, who previously scored a box office hit with Je Prefere Qu’on Reste Amis. – Mark Deming, Rovi

Olivier Nakache

The screenwriter/director duo Eric Toledano (Paris, 1971) and Oliver Nakache (Suresnes, 1973) have already made their mark in the short film field, particularly when their second work, Les petits souliers (1999), received the Paris Film Festival’s the Audience Award. Since then, they have helmed the features Jepre’fe`re qu’on reste amis (2005), Nos jours heureux (2006) and Tellement proches (2009). —EFF

Eric Toledano

Éric Toledano is a director, screenwriter, and actor born in Paris in 1971. He works in tandem with Olivier Nakache, born in 1973. Their careers are inextricably linked, as they’ve made a variety of shorts and feature-length films together since their first, 1995’s Day and Night. Highlights from their filmography include 2005’s I Prefer That We Remain Friends, 2007’s Happy Days, and 2009’s So Close. —SIFF

albertofarina

25Jul11

Sorpresina spettacolare al banchetto dei DVD da 3 €. Completamente ignorato quando uscì, ma divertente, toccante, con un ritmo davvero scatenato e un senso di nostalgia selettiva per giorni felici che quasi mai sono in realtà stati felici come si ama ricordarli