My Brothers and I

2021 [FRENCH]

Drama / Music

6
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 1005 1K

Plot summary

Nour, a 14-year-old boy, is enjoying the summer holidays in the South of France. He is the youngest of four brothers. They live together in a council estate, caring for their mother who is in a coma. Nour dreams of escaping to a faraway place. When he crosses paths with Sarah, an Opera singer teaching summer classes, he finds the opportunity to come out of his shell and explore new horizons.

Director

Yohan Manca Photo
Yohan Manca

Top cast

Dali Benssalah Photo
Dali Benssalah as Abel
Luc Schwarz Photo
Luc Schwarz as Pietro
Judith Chemla Photo
Judith Chemla as Sarah
Olivier Loustau Photo
Olivier Loustau as Manu
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997.38 MB
1280*694
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 1
2 GB
1916*1040
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Mozjoukine

One of the more involving accounts of Growing up tough in the projects.

This one is an involving companion piece to Ladji Li's 2019 LES MISERABLES - immigrants struggle while the gendarmes hover round their mass housing. Plausibly eleven year old Maël Rouin Berrandou can't wait to quit school but his three brothers make dodgy role models and their comatose mother in the bedroom needs constant care.The pressure is to become a pizza delivery boy but, while painting the corridor on a bogus educational leisure project at the school where he's still enrolled, Berrandou encounters Judith (CAMILLE REWINDS) Chemla's small singing class, recognising the Italian opera arias his late father used to play.Between going look out for drug runs, beach soccer and getting roughed up by his family, our hero edges towards being an Arab Billy Elliot. The plausible surface, engaging characters and inconclusive ending all give this conviction. Despite the grim material it manages to be lively entertainment.Skillful handling uses available light and real locations effectively giving the impression of a realistic texture.
Reviewed by ops-52535 6 / 10

not the...

Steadiest and durable french film made lately, feels like much of the production have been best of luck, and retakes isnt a word in the director vocabulary...but it tells a story about summer, love among siblings and mutual hate between relative, its a film about when the wind passes over the epiglyttal valves, and a young boys love to the musical arts of opera, at the cap adge district of mediterranean france, with beutiful beaches and surprising bays and coves... so it maybe worth a look.The cast mostly delivers ok, there are some wow-moments of nightingale singing, and gangsterwraps, but its mostly a story in french and for french. A small recommend from the grumpy old man.
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