Tres Watchable

Rating: 8/10 (25 December 2014)

This French farce was given an unfortunate title, but that seem to me to be the only thing wrong with this entertaining, well-acted farce of an energetic character who happens to be black positively affecting the life of a handicapped white man who happens to be sickeningly wealthy. It's a terrible mistake to look at this picture as an unfortunate stereotype of racial relations as some professional critics have done. I wonder what would be said if the black character was cast as Arabic, which was the actual situation on which the story is based. And wouldn't it be peculiar to see an Arab participating in some of the antics that Mr. Sy, the wonderful actor from Senegal performs. His performance is outstanding, and one of the best comedic performances of the year. There is talk of remaking this in English. Please don't do that.