Bonsoir (film)

Bonsoir is a 1994 French film directed by JeanPierre Mocky.

As in many of JeanPierre Mockys films, there is a strong antiestablishment, almost anarchist subtext. This is manifested in the way that the selfproclaimed moral figures the police, the clergy, even the President of the Republic are presented in this film, but also in the elevation of Alex Ponttin Michel Serrault to the status of a public hero at the end of the film. Whilst society and state sink into a numbing inertia, bereft of integrity and humanity, it is left to the eccentrics, the outsiders like worried Caroline Claude Jade, who is attacked by her sister and her aunt because the secret of her homosexuality, to build a more cohesive society and a better world. Michel Serrault excels in this offthewall satirical comedy which makes a bizarre assessment of modern life. He plays an impish vagrant who uses his newfound freedom to improve the lives of his fellow man, by briefly insinuating himself into their lives. Bonsoir goes much further and suggests that whole of modern society, not only the police, is culpable of mediocrity and moral laxity. It takes an outsider like Alex Ponttin, free from the bonds of modern living, to point the way to a better future.

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