For ten years, Senegalese immigrant Samba (Omar Sy. When Samba (Sy) is suddenly ordered to leave France, he enlists the help. From the acclaimed directing duo of Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (The Intouchables), Samba is the richly entertaining chronicle of an undocumented kitchen worker battling deportation from his adopted home in Paris.
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Its co-directed by Nakache and Toledano, but its not a patch on their last movie, The Intouchables. SAMBA reunites The Intouchables’ acclaimed directing duo, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, with award-winning actor Omar Sy in a richly entertaining chronicle of an undocumented kitchen worker battling deportation from his adopted home in Paris. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together. Its called Samba, but its not about Brazilian music. A comedy nurtured by authentic situations - that is the path we try to follow in every film. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. The extraordinary destiny of those migrants who are prepared to do everything to reach the West makes them modern heroes, funny and sensitive at the same time. We absolutely do not want to give a negative or pessimistic view of things we keep the tone of the comedy and the absurd and at the same time a great tenderness for our characters who, like on a stage, are constrained to disguise and to change their identity depending on the situations. Samba (Omar Sy), an immigrant from Senegal, has been living in France illegally for the past ten years, working small jobs. The story begins with Sambha (NTR Jr) in the temple town of Kancheepuram. Its tone becomes muddled as it turns extremely episodic, alternating between sequences of uproarious comedy, romantic warmth, and occasional sober commentary on the inane bureaucracy foiling hopeful immigrants. The idea to intertwine a person like Alice, who is recovering from a burnout, with Samba allows two lonely souls to meet each other, one representing the Western dream and the other one the new illness that is symptomatic of modern societies. The film is all about a big bad villain against an always-doing-good hero. Yet even as Samba struggles to hold onto his identity, the film becomes entangled in an identity crisis of its own.
Our point is not to take a stand about the situation of illegal immigrants, neither in a political nor a biased way, but to observe, to state and question how things are, like it is possible in the cinematic form.
After having focused on today’s working classes in THE INTOUCHABLES, we this time wanted to shed a light on people who live in the underground, often after having crossed the ocean and braved the worst difficulty to come to France.