Les idiots, 21 Juin Cinéma
MOVIE REVIEW
The World After Us (2021)
Anyone who dreams of the romance of Paris should watch this adorable love story for a reality check. It’s expensive being broke, especially in Paris, so Labidi (Aurélien Gabrelli, utterly lovable) is having a tough time. He is so broke the bedsit he shares with his awkward friend Alekseï (Léon Cunha Da Costa) is only wide enough for a single bed, a shower stall and a kitchenette. They must take it in turns to sleep on the floor; but since there is something of the Simon Pegg-Nick Frost dynamic between them there’s no friction or drama. Labidi has an education, as well as parents who love him, but they are barely scraping by themselves, and he’s not so young anymore that he can lean on them. But then there are two pieces of luck. A short story Labidi wrote wins a contest, which gets him an agent (Mikaël Chirinian), and the agent gets him a meeting with a publishing house, who ask him to deliver a novel within six months. And then, on a visit down south to Lyon to tell his parents the news, Labidi sees a young woman named Elisa (Louise Chevillotte), and the whole world changes.