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| La Maison du Bonheur | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dany Boon |
| Produced by | Claude Berri |
| Written by | Dany Boon |
| Starring | Dany Boon Michèle Laroque Daniel Prévost |
| Music by | Philippe Rombi |
| Cinematography | Jean-Marie Dreujou |
| Edited by | Luc Barnie |
Production company | Pathé Renn Productions Hirsch TF1 Films Production Les Productions du Ch'timi |
| Distributed by | Pathé |
| |
| 100 minutes | |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $10.5 million |
| Box office | $7.3 million[1] |
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La Maison du Bonheur (The House of Happiness) is a 2006 French comedy film directed by Dany Boon, adapted from the play La Vie de chantier (Life on a building site).
Plot[edit]
Charles Boulin is a debt collector for a credit company called Crédilem.
After his wife Anne accuses him of being tight-fisted, he decides to surprise her by buying a house in the country... but before he manages to do so the house is snatched up by one of his colleagues. In his disappointment he steals his colleague's bag which contains the signed deeds. As he has already been given several warnings at work, he is sacked on the spot.
To reduce renovation costs, Charles Boulin seeks the help of Jean-Pierre Draquart, the shifty estate agent who sold him the second house in his catalogue. This swindler calls up his 'best team': Mouloud Mami and Donatello Pirelli - who as workers are both perfectly incompetent. As the renovation progresses, the house gradually turns into ruins.
Charles soon finds himself in debt after being refused a bank loan and then has to sell the family apartment without letting his wife or daughter find out. He survives on odd jobs, whilst scheming in order to convince his family to move into the 'new' house...
Cast[edit]
- Dany Boon as Charles Boulin
- Michèle Laroque as Anne Boulin
- Daniel Prévost as Jean-Pierre Draquart
- Zinedine Soualem as Mouloud Mami
- Laurent Gamelon as Donatello Pirelli
- Line Renaud as Aunt Suzanne Bailleul
- Michel Vuillermoz as Jacques Kurtz
- Ariane Séguillon as Nicole Kurtz
- Gaëlle Bona as Élisabeth
- Antoine Chappey as Alexis Boulin
- Laure Sirieix as Norah Boulin
- Frédéric Bouraly as The doctor
- Jacqueline Jehanneuf as The house owner
- Jean Dell as The notary
- Didier Flamand as Banker
- Thierry Desroses as Architect
- David Strajmayster as McDonald's manager
Box office[edit]
| Country | Admissions [2] |
|---|---|
| France | 1,146,962[3] |
| Spain | 54,101 |
| Belgium | 5,803 |
| Switzerland | 2,259 [4] |
| Luxembourg | 760 |
Discography[edit]
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The CD soundtrack, including the scores of Nothing to Declare and Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, all composed by Philippe Rombi.
References[edit]
- ^'La Maison du bonheur (2006)- JPBox-Office'. Jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^'LUMIERE : Film: La Maison du bonheur'. Lumiere.obs.coe.int. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^Coudurier, Laurent. 'CBO : Tous les chiffres du box office en France'. Cbo-boxoffice.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-03.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
External links[edit]
- La Maison du Bonheur on IMDb
| Nothing to Declare | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Dany Boon |
| Produced by | Les Productions du Chicon Éric Hubert |
| Written by | Dany Boon |
| Starring | Benoît Poelvoorde Dany Boon |
| Music by | Stéphane Reichart |
| Cinematography | Pierre Aïm |
| Edited by | Luc Barnier |
| Distributed by | Pathé |
| |
| 108 minutes | |
| Country | France Belgium |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $28 million [1] |
| Box office | $93.8 million [2] |
Nothing to Declare (French: Rien à déclarer) is a 2010 franco-belgian comedy film, written and directed by Dany Boon.[3]
- 4Reception
Plot[edit]
On 1 January 1993, two customs officers, one Belgian and the other French, have to deal with closure of their small customs post situated between Courquain in France and Koorkin in Belgium.
Both a hereditary francophobe and an over-zealous Belgian customs officer, Ruben Vandevoorde is forced to join the first Franco-Belgian mobile squad. The first French volunteer for the squad is Mathias Ducatel, Vandervoorde's personal bête noire. He does this because he has fallen in love with Vandervoorde's sister Louise, and is afraid to unveil their love because of the trouble it will cause within her family.
Meanwhile, in an effort to raise money for the restaurant No Man's Land during the transition to the Schengen Agreement, Jacques and Irene are hired by a drug trafficker named Duval to pass along information concerning the mobile squad's checkpoints. Unfortunately, the information is rendered useless as Duval's accomplice Tiburce hilariously fails to avoid customs and ends up in jail.
In their pursuit of the drug trafficker, Vandevoorde and Ducatel become close, at first because the priest tells Vandevoorde that his hatred towards the French will lead him straight to hell. But soon, Vandevoorde really starts to think of Ducatel as a good friend until he finds out that Ducatel has been seeing his sister in secret for a year. By which point, he pulls out his gun and tries to shoot Ducatel but his sister stops him, because she loves him.
In the end, Vandevoorde accepts them as a couple but remains a racist and the audience is left in the dark on whether the father, who is much more of a francophobe, accepts them or not.
Cast[edit]
- Benoît Poelvoorde: Ruben Vandevoorde
- Dany Boon: Mathias Ducatel
- Karin Viard: Irène Janus
- François Damiens: Jacques Janus
- Julie Bernard: Louise Vandevoorde
- Eric Godon: Chief Willems
- Zinedine Soualem: Lucas Pozzi
- Bruno Lochet: Tiburce
- Nadège Beausson-Diagne: Nadia Bakari
- Philippe Magnan: Mercier
- Guy Lecluyse: Grégory Brioul
- Laurent Gamelon: Duval
- David Coudyser: the country driver
- Jérôme Commandeur: the French driver
- Bouli Lanners: Bruno Vanuxem
- Jean-Luc Couchard: Brother Vanuxem
- Olivier Gourmet: the priest from Chimay
- Bruno Moynot: the estate agent
- Jean-Paul Dermont: Father Vandevoorde
- Laurent Capelluto: the Russian
- Chritel Pedrinelli: Olivia Vandevoorde
- Joachim Ledeganck: Léopold Vandevoorde
Production[edit]
In an interview with ClapVideo, Dany Boon says that he wrote this film because he wanted to create something as strong as Welcome to the Sticks (French title: Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis). He was inspired by the fact that 'we're all a stranger to someone', and that 'we all experience some futile rejection that lead us to do stupid things'. He also took inspiration of his parents' relationship and transformed it into the love story between Mathias Ducatel and Louise Vandevoorde.[citation needed]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
According to Pathé the film sold 48,155 tickets in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais on the opening night, the biggest film success in the region since Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis.[4]
Critical response[edit]
One of the major themes of the movie is how the European Union's vision of Europe may be good in theory but in practice can be damaging to the local economy in the border regions.
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Critical reception of this film has been generally mixed. AlloCiné has given the film 2.5 out of 5.[citation needed] Rotten Tomatoes lists two reviews from critics, one positive, one negative.[5]
References[edit]
- ^http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=11191
- ^https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=nothingtodeclare.htm
- ^'Nothing to Declare'. unifrance.org. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
- ^(in French)Article « Rien à déclarer », premier jour : un succès sans excès
- ^https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nothing_to_declare_2010
External links[edit]
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| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rien à déclarer. |
- Rien à déclarer on IMDb
- Nothing to Declare at Rotten Tomatoes
- Official press kit {en}