''The World Is Yours'' (french: Le Monde est à toi) is a 2018 French
crime comedy film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
co-written and directed by
Romain Gavras
Romain Gavras (; born 4 July 1981 in Paris, France) is a French filmmaker. He is known for directing Jamie xx's video " Gosh", Kanye West's video "No Church in the Wild" and M.I.A.'s video " Bad Girls". He also directed Justice's "Stress" and M. ...
. It stars
Karim Leklou,
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...
,
Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor.
He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film '' La Haine (Hate)'', for which he received two César Award ...
,
Oulaya Amamra
Oulaya Amamra (born 12 November 1996) is a French actress known for starring in the 2016 films ''Divines'' and '' Tamara''. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress for ''Divines''.
A ...
,
François Damiens
François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (; born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor.
Career
He has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000. He started out doing hidden camera videos in the 90s and became widely popular in B ...
and
Philippe Katerine
Philippe Blanchard (; born 8 December 1968), known professionally as Philippe Katerine, is a French singer-songwriter, actor, director and writer who began his career in 1991. Some of his popular singles include "Mon cœur balance", "Je vous em ...
. It was selected to screen at the
Directors' Fortnight
The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festiv ...
section of the
2018 Cannes Film Festival.
The leitmotif is
Daniel Balavoine
Daniel Xavier-Marie Balavoine (; 5 February 1952 – 14 January 1986) was a French singer and songwriter. He was hugely popular in the French-speaking world in the early 1980s; he inspired many singers of his generation such as Jean-Jacques Gol ...
's song "La vie ne m'apprend rien".
Synopsis
François, a small-time drug dealer, dreams of starting a new life as the official distributor of Mr. Freeze
ice pop
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s in the
Maghreb
The Maghreb (; ar, الْمَغْرِب, al-Maghrib, lit=the west), also known as the Arab Maghreb ( ar, المغرب العربي) and Northwest Africa, is the western part of North Africa and the Arab world. The region includes Algeria, ...
region. However, he discovers that his mother Dany has lost all his savings gambling. He then tries to start anew by associating with Poutine, the erratic kingpin of the city, for a scheme in Spain. But François's
entourage
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Arts and entertainment
* L'entourage, French hip hop / rap collecti ...
gets involved, which soon disrupts everyone's plans.
Cast
*
Karim Leklou as François
*
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...
as Dany
*
Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor.
He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film '' La Haine (Hate)'', for which he received two César Award ...
as Henri
*
Oulaya Amamra
Oulaya Amamra (born 12 November 1996) is a French actress known for starring in the 2016 films ''Divines'' and '' Tamara''. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress for ''Divines''.
A ...
as Lamya
*
Sam Spruell
Sam Spruell (born 1 January 1977) is a British actor. He is best known for playing villainous roles in film and television including Oleg Malankov in '' Taken 3'', Finn in '' Snow White and the Huntsman'' and Swarm in '' Doctor Who: Flux''. He a ...
as Bruce
* Gabby Rose as Britanny
*
Sofian Khammes as Poutine
* Mounir Amamra as Mohamed 1
* Mahamadou Sangare as Mohamed 2
*
François Damiens
François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (; born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor.
Career
He has appeared in more than fifty films since 2000. He started out doing hidden camera videos in the 90s and became widely popular in B ...
as René
*
Philippe Katerine
Philippe Blanchard (; born 8 December 1968), known professionally as Philippe Katerine, is a French singer-songwriter, actor, director and writer who began his career in 1991. Some of his popular singles include "Mon cœur balance", "Je vous em ...
as Vincent
Production
The project was announced on 25 April 2017 by
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...
in an interview with ''
Grazia'' magazine. The actress described it as "pretty crazy" and revealed that
Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel (; ; born 23 November 1966) is a French actor.
He first achieved recognition for his performance as a troubled French Jewish youth in Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film '' La Haine (Hate)'', for which he received two César Award ...
and
Oulaya Amamra
Oulaya Amamra (born 12 November 1996) is a French actress known for starring in the 2016 films ''Divines'' and '' Tamara''. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress and the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actress for ''Divines''.
A ...
would also be involved.
Reception
Critical response
On
review aggregation
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website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of .
On French website
Allociné, the film has a critic approval rating of 3.6/5 based on 34 reviews and a viewer approval rating of 3.5/5. Théo Ribeton of French magazine ''
Les Inrockuptibles
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'' praised the humour and confidence of director
Romain Gavras
Romain Gavras (; born 4 July 1981 in Paris, France) is a French filmmaker. He is known for directing Jamie xx's video " Gosh", Kanye West's video "No Church in the Wild" and M.I.A.'s video " Bad Girls". He also directed Justice's "Stress" and M. ...
, comparing the film to
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the ''Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Robert Downey Jr.
Ritchi ...
's early work. In a less enthusiastic review, Corentin Lê of ''CinéSéries'' called the plot line "predictable."
Peter Debruge of ''
Variety
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'' called the film a "crowd-pleasing
Tarantino-esque crime saga." Phil Hoad of ''
The Guardian
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'' review wrote that with this film "Gavras has seized his chance, staging this uptempo, carnivalesque crime pic with panache and wit." David Ehrlich of ''
IndieWire
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'' called the film "the best movie that Guy Ritchie never made."
Award nominations
*
César Awards
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:
**
Best Supporting Actress for
Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Yasmina Adjani ; born 27 June 1955) is a French actress and singer of Algerian and German descent. She is the only performer in history to win five César Awards for acting; she won the Best Actress award for '' Possession'' (1981), '' ...
**
Most Promising Actor for Karim Leklou
References
External links
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2018 films
2018 comedy films
2018 crime films
2010s crime comedy films
2010s French-language films
2010s heist films
Films about the illegal drug trade
French crime comedy films
French heist films
StudioCanal films
2010s French films