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After "Les Babas-Cool" (quite bad one but still a cult film to me) and the master-piece: "Les Valseuses", let's say "Mes Meilleurs Copains" will stay as the last very good cult movie about the controversial 1968 generation. All the others which imitate these ones are used to failing as any remakes in general do. So what happens really?Five old rocker losers meet their first love in a concert in Paris (a famous Québecois singer called Bernadette Legranbois, Louise Portal, quite good acting) and decide to spend the week-end together. There, each one try to deal with their own problems, about the past and the present, doing the last bereavement of the 1968 period to go and get further in their lives. The numerous flash-backs let us remind how silly, ridiculous and hypocritical they were and they have always been. The characters are just so funny and the development of the story show us how they've changed and have evolved. What is really joyful in this movie is not only the dialogs and the acting which are not far from perfect but also that you see all the 1968 people's portrait of nowadays: You've got the frustrated artist (Philippe Khorsand as Antoine Joubert, definitely the best in that movie!), self-centered and amazingly deaf to what his friends say to him, the old cool irresponsible hippie who makes love in front of his child and lives at his friend's place (Jean-Pierre Daroussin as Dany, as good as always), the homosexual frustrated guy who makes sport all the time to calm down his frustration he's been supporting all the time since 1968 nearly, who has not come out yet (Jean-Pierre Bacri as Guido, inventing by the way the character he's always been playing...the nervous, psycho-rigid guy...he's great as always), the right-wing "bourgeois" who changed his mind, try to convince himself he's done the right choice choosing the "family way of life" (Gerard Lanvin as Richard, always good when he plays the right-wing guy probably because he's one of these) and of course (Christian Clavier, the narrator as Jean-Michel), "bourgeois" too but who tries to be cool, to convince himself he's overcome his first love deception with the Canadian singer in the 1970's by writing a book ! I tell you, the film's characters are so pathetic you laugh all the time and you'll reckon it's a good portrait of french middle class society who deal with the bereavement of their "ideological years". The film is also good to show that friendship helps to overcome these difficult confessions.
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