Rent Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008)
3.6 of 5 from 122 ratings
1h 42min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie (Zoé Félix) has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad), a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell... - Actors:
- Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne, Guy Lecluyse, Line Renaud, Michel Galabru, Stéphane Freiss, Patrick Bosso, Jérôme Commandeur, Alexandre Carrière, Fred Personne, Frank Andrieux, Jean-Christophe Herbeth, Jean-François Picotin, Jenny Clève, Claude Talpaert, Sylviane Goudal
- Directors:
- Dany Boon
- Producers:
- Claude Berri, Jérôme Seydoux
- Writers:
- Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier
- Aka:
- Welcome to the Sticks
- Studio:
- Pathe
- Genres:
- Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- Top 10 French-Language Remakes
- Countries:
- France
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Unknown
- Run Time:
- 107 minutes
- Languages:
- French Dolby TrueHD 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, French Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Making Of
- Bloopers
- Back In Ch'nord Surprises with Dany Boon and Kad Merad
- Welcome to the Ch'tis a Lille
- Cut Scenes
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Special Ch'tis
- The Incredible Story of the Film
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Reviews (4) of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis
Quite a Change from French Arthouse Films! - Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis review by MS
This is a lightweight, mass market comedy. Draws on the old clichés of a fish out of water, with a soft south-of-France manager trying to adapt to life with good-hearted but unsophisticated hicks in the northern Pas de Calais area. Much of the humour revolves around their rural dialect; the subtitler has made an attempt to convey what it is like, using English. Although it's probably much funnier if you speak French well, there are quite a few laughs anyway. Think a middle-class Cambridge person suddenly being sent to work in a remote North-east English town and you get the idea.
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North meets South - French style! - Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis review by JG
Long ago as a schoolboy, I took a French exchange student who happened to speak fluent english to see 'Kes'. He did not understand a word of it! This movie is the French equivalent from a language point of view. My french is not far above schoolboy level, but I found it almost impossible to comprehend the Ch'ti dialect (similar to Picard) spoken in this north-eastern French region where the film is set. Indeed, neither can the main French character who has been moved here from the sunny south - which is the whole conceit of the film.
It is actually quite funny, but the writer of the english subtitles instead of providing a literal translation, has attempted to recreate the misunderstandings between the characters from the north and the south using english equivalents, which ............ let's just say are somewhat wide of the mark. For example 'chien', instead of being translated as 'dog', becomes for some unknown reason 'fish'.
There are some laugh out loud moments and plenty of visual humour, so even without understanding the language, it does make enjoyable viewing.
Sadly, no subtitles are supplied to the many 'extras' which is a shame. I would actually like to have learned something about this area of northern France.
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Engaging Film - Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis review by KB
Interesting & unusual premise for the film .Stick with it for the first 20 minutes when you get used to the unusual accents & you get your reward .
Good story , well acted particularly the 2 main actors & it gets more amusing as it goes on .
A fine effort that I enjoyed.
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