‘God, but what have you done to us?’
Address: Philippe of Chauveron
Translators: Christian Clavier, Chantal Lauby, Jochen Hägele, Pascal Nzonzi, Bing Yin, Ary Abittan, Medi Sadoun, Frédéric Chau, Noom Diawara, Frédérique Bel, Élodie Fontan, Daniel Russo, Amélie Prevot
Year: 2022
premiere: 18 July 2022
★
‘Oh my God, what have we done to you?’ and ‘God, what have we done to you now?’ ‘God, but what have you done to us?’ Unheard of what it started as a retrograde, classist and racist comedy has reached its third episode, but cinema is also a reflection of society, and Marine Le Pen’s voters will surely find these jokes about color, sexual orientation, and various cultural traditions hilarious.
There isn’t much novelty compared to the first episode that unleashed the wrath, like yes, the ‘mother-in-law’ jokes, where the daughters of a conservative marriage decide to marry a black, a Chinese, a Jew, and an Arab. the parent who wants something better for their female child (a white Catholic).
Now, all concerned families will gather to celebrate the couple’s ruby wedding, founded by Christian Clavier. (Great representative of French right-wing comedy) and Chantal Lauby and they will all get along very badly until they can tolerate each other. What a great lesson. The fact that an entire episode revolves around how controversial a theatrical representation with a black Jesus can be shows how pre-Diluvial the proposal is.
In this sense, we can say the following. ‘God, what have you done to us?’ takes the cinema back 50 years, almost to the Pleistocene. He is lazy, his humor is ridiculous, the situations it presents are embarrassing and the ideology on which it is based is the most dangerous.