{"id":1389,"date":"2018-02-10T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=1389"},"modified":"2021-03-08T20:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:23:57","slug":"samba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/2022-winners\/2015-awards\/samba\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMBA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SAMBA<\/strong><\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518223864058{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]US Premiere \u2022 Dramatic comedy \u2022 France, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 118 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: \u00c9ric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
\nWritten by<\/strong>: \u00c9ric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
\nBased on the book by:\u00a0<\/strong>Delphine Coulin (Samba pour la France<\/em>)
\nCinematography<\/strong>: St\u00e9phane Fontaine
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Dorian Rigal-Ansous
\nOriginal Score<\/strong>: Ludovico Einaudi
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun (Yume – Quad Films)
\nCoproduced by<\/strong>: \u00a0Ten Films, Gaumont, TF1 Films Production
\nCast<\/strong>: Charlotte Gainsbourg (Alice), Omar Sy (Samba), Tahar Rahim (Walid), Izia Higelin (Manue)
\n<\/strong>International Sales<\/strong>: Gaumont
\nUS Distributor<\/strong>: Broad Green \u2022 broadgreen.com
\nUS Release date<\/strong>: 2015<\/p>\n

Filmmakers \u00c9ric Toledano and Olivier Nakache chase their monster hit\u00a0The Intouchables<\/em>\u00a0with a comedic expos\u00e9 on the plight of illegal immigrants. Omar Sy lends his incandescent talents to the role of Samba, a resourceful Senegalese illegal who has managed to stay off the books for ten years while closing in on his dream of becoming a chef. When the authorities finally catch up to him, it\u2019s up to immigrant services volunteer, Alice, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, to prevent his deportation. Alice is a timid, white-collar burnout trying to bounce back from problems of her own, but once she meets Samba, she has more than charity on her mind. When Alice advises Samba to hide in plain sight for another year until he is eligible to reapply for legal papers, Samba and his womanizing \u201cBrazilian\u201d buddy Walid (A Prophet\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Tahar Rahim) embark on a riotous odyssey of thankless jobs and random identities. But while Samba is ready to jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops, he\u2019s not so sure he\u2019s ready to jump into a relationship.<\/p>\n

The writer\/director duo\u00a0Olivier Nakache<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00c9ric Toledano<\/strong>\u00a0have been inseparable from the beginning of their careers, when they made several award-winning shorts beginning in 1995. Always working in comedy, their acclaimed first feature,\u00a0Just Friends<\/em>\u00a0(COLCOA 2005), starred G\u00e9rard Depardieu and Jean-Paul Rouve.\u00a0Those Happy Days<\/em>\u00a0(2006 COLCOA Audience Award) marked their first collaboration with an actor who was then chiefly known for television comedy, Omar Sy, who would win an NRJ Cin\u00e9 Award for Best Young Talent. Their third feature,\u00a0So Close<\/em>, had its World Premiere at COLCOA 2009.\u00a0The Intouchables<\/em>\u00a0(COLCOA 2012) would become a signature film for the pair. One of the top grossing films in French box office history, it was nominated for 37 awards, including Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, and Omar Sy\u2019s breakout performance earned him both a Lumiere and a C\u00e9sar Award for Best Actor, paving the way for roles in major Hollywood films like\u00a0X-Men: Days of Future Past\u00a0<\/em>(2014) and the upcoming\u00a0Jurassic World<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Samba<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in collaboration with writer Muriel Coulin, sees the duo continuing their fruitful collaboration with Sy.<\/p>\n

Quotes:<\/p>\n

\u201cNakache and Toledano have another crowd-pleaser with international appeal on their hands.\u201d
\n\u2013 Jared Mobarak THE FILM STAGE<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026an impressively lucid, and often hilarious, indictment of France\u2019s two-tiered social system.\u201d
\n\u2013 Jordan Mintzer<\/p>\n

\u201cNakache and Toledano clearly know how to make a film that will please the majority of their audience.\u201d
\n\u2013 Brad Brevet ROPE OF SILICON<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518223788152{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] SAMBA [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518223864058{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]US Premiere \u2022 Dramatic comedy \u2022 France, 2014 DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 118 min Directed by: \u00c9ric Toledano, Olivier Nakache Written by: \u00c9ric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin Based on the book by:\u00a0Delphine Coulin (Samba pour la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1389","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1389\/revisions\/1400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}