
With a Little Help from Myself
France, 92 | 2008 min. | Dir. Francois Dupeyron
From the director of Monsieur Ibrahim, François Dupeyron, this film is about two things. One, the heat wave in 2003 that killed 14,000 seniors; and two, a family of African immigrants supported spiritually and financially by Sonia (Félicité Wouassi), the insect woman of the 21st century. Her family lives in the projects outside of Paris, and her beauty has captured the heart of a man who drives around the projects picking up old people killed by the heat. The woman also has a bum husband and two sons (one is weird; the other is dumb), and two daughters (one is attractive; the other ugly). The film has lots of great African music and French hiphop.