A Difficult Year

(2023)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 338 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 2023

Runtime: 120 мин

Country: France

Director: Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache

Cast: Пио Мармай, Джонатан Коэн, Ноэми Мерлан, Матьё Амальрик, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Luàna Bajrami, Sandrine Briard, Усама Хеддам, Danièle Lebrun, Alexandra Roth

Plot

Compulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction.

Albert and Bruno are in the red, compulsive consumers, over-indebted, they live between petty schemes for one and a personal life adrift for the other. It is in the associative path, which they both take to get their heads above water, that they will come across young rebellious activists, climate alarmists, lovers of social justice and eco-responsibility. More attracted by beer and free crisps than by their arguments, Albert and Bruno will gradually integrate the movement without conviction, if not that of taking advantage of each action and each rebellion to schem and profit from it. Between ideological or suffered minimalism, between overconsumption and happy sobriety, we face the complex simplicity of our future, the oppositions and paradoxes of our time, in short, everything is fine.