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My Best Holidays (2012)

My Best Holidays poster
Original title
Nos plus belles vacances
Directed by
Philippe Lellouche
Genre
comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
AL
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 2012, a man takes his wife and children on a summer trip to a small village in Brittany where she was born. The family and their friends, who are Jewish and from Paris, face some awkwardness with the local Catholic Bretons. The film follows their attempts to get along during a hot vacation.

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What happens

Nos plus belles vacances est un film français, réalisé par Philippe Lellouche et sorti en 2012. , année de la canicule. Claude (Philippe Lellouche), juif d’Algérie arrivé en France quinze ans plus tôt, emmène sa jeune femme Isabelle (Julie Gayet), ses deux garçons Simon (12 ans) et Bibou (8 ans), et Mamie, sa belle-mère, en Bretagne. C’est Isabelle qui, ayant surpris Claude en flagrant délit d’adultère, a choisi pour ces vacances le petit village où elle est née : le Rocher Abraham. Dès le lendemain de leur arrivée, Bernard (Gérard Darmon) et Bernadette (Vanessa Demouy), Jacky (Christian Vadim) et Marie-Jeanne (Julie Bernard), deux couples d’amis, les y rejoignent. Ils sont accueillis avec méfiance par les autochtones, principalement au café Pondemer, le café du village où les hommes se retrouvent. Juifs pieds-noirs, bretons catholiques… Parisiens, provinciaux : la cohabitation n’est pas facile. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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