Or the narcissistic need for it. And if he was less calculative and more manic.. Then this could definitely be his artsy metaphorical biopic. But JP isn't nearly as cool as Cassel's character.
A very nice film that has it's own ways of portraying : existentialism, angst, mania, boredom, rage and depression formed in this weird world we live in. Emotions that -if you're actually living and not being a robot- you should all go through in life. Numerous times.
Cassel's character is hilarious to me! His remarks and gestures are very enjoyable to watch.
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Jester2225 October 2019After seeing the directors music videos (I use the term music very loosely) I was looking forward to seeing this film. Expecting a certain amount of violence. Sadly it was very few and far between. Not what the trailer or cover art portrayed it to be. It's nowhere near La Haine at all. Just a sad kid trying to work out his sexuality and an older man having a midlife crisis.
It's not a terrible film though and the acting is good. Especially Vincent Cassel. But it never really satisfied and left me hoping they would totally go off the rails. Sadly. They didn't.
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thebogofeternalstench29 November 2011Well 'Our Day Will Come' is not what I expected after seeing the trailer and hearing good things about it.
Patrick's little speech while smoking a cigarette was probably the highlight for me.
The only other remotely interesting scenes was when Remy found out his internet date was a bloke and everyone laughed at him.
So he is gay or not? Does it matter? Where was this movie going????
A French Thelma and Louise, with silly scenes of little importance, a masturbation scene in a jacuzzi which is hard to tell exactly what hes doing actually.
I found Our Day Will Come totally mediocre at best. -
matthew-bennett-pictures8 February 2012Wow! There's something innately thrilling about a film that is constantly on the verge of it's own self-destruction, of teetering on the edge of believability, and at the same time completely committed to its own madness.
Absolutely enjoyed the experience. I set out to screen Alexander Payne's 'The Descendants' at the beginning of the evening and found myself a bit depressed and bored after the first ten minutes. (Usually the ten-minute mark is the fork in the road for me.)
On the glowing advice of a workmate I decided to screen 'Our Day Will Come'. This was the pill I needed.
Gavras' hand on the wheel here is even, lucid, and in control. But the bizarre turns of events, chance meetings which either bear fruit or become deeply passionate relationships, and the film's unique shimmy all had me seduced.
Fun stuff. To be taken with laughter and not to be taken lightly. Where do we go from here, Gavras? We don't know. Take us there. -
gadfly13225 January 2014The immediate difficulty with this film (and perhaps it might be my television), is the lack of 'redness' in the protagonists' red hair. Lacking that singular feature upon which much of the angst is based, the movie is flatter than last Tuesday's Ginger Ale.
It's a nice ride at times, but the absolute lack of cohesion, rather than contributing to an anarchic or devilish tone, merely spreads itself like melting butter: not attractively, pointless and ultimately unpalatable. Basically, I was left with the Cosmic Question: "Who cares?" So much appeared forced. The most awkwardly obvious 'artistic' endeavour was the injection of bouncing, female breasts. Perhaps shocking or titillating, but cleverly balanced by sticking a fat, little, VERY young outsider of a female to watch the proceedings. She appeared as bored and uninterested as the audience probably was.
A solid, imperial miss. Of the target. It can be enigmatic when the audience is teased with an element of "What the hell is really going on?" but when the Director doesn't seem to know, it's simply fatal.
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kosmasp27 September 2012I knew nothing about this, just the fact that Vincent Cassel was starring. But I'm not sure there is a way to prepare for this really wild ride you're about to take while watching this movie. Cassel obviously has a lot of fun depicting the character he's portraying on screen here. He gets really OTT with it and it works more than fine. He's co-star is good too, both introduced in short segments, but both having something in common, that is more than the color of their hair.
The movie that also has some nudity in it (male and female), will appall a lot of people, just by being so apparently crazy. It doesn't seem to have a goal (or a destination), especially at the beginning, but it's more about the journey itself. A journey that has no moral implications, but is just a wild day/night out. Do not try those things at home ;o) -
The outcast red-haired teenager Rémy (Olivier Barthelemy) is bullied at school and lives with his estranged mother and sister in France. The also red-haired psychiatrist Patrick (Vincent Cassel) befriends Rémy and helps him to release his repressed hatred and sexuality. When Rémy sees a picture of red-haired people in Ireland, he forces Patrick to travel with him to his dreamland.
"Notre Jour Viendra" is a dramatic and pointless journey to rage and self- destruction by the son of Costa-Gravas, Romain Gravas. The overrated film is painful to watch and goes nowhere, despite the good performances and the excellent music score. My vote is two.
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nogodsnomasters-162-94289216 May 2020The two lead characters were supposed to have Red Hair, one is blonde and the other is brunette. Pointless wasting trime on this garbage.
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owenxb-187-1504622 September 2012Romain Gavras' debut feature Notre Jour Viendra arrived without any formal connection to "Born Free," the 9-minute music video he directed for artist M.I.A., released just months earlier in 2010. But to fully grasp the context of this mad epic, "Born Free" should be considered required viewing. The short violently depicts the regimented and senseless capture and execution of people with red hair by squadrons of roaming military men around Los Angeles. "Born Free" provoked such controversy that its appearance on YouTube was censored or removed altogether the day after its April 26 premiere, deemed gratuitous, inappropriate, and sensational, not to mention anti-American. Regardless of its reception and interpretation, few could have known that "Born Free" was merely act one in a significantly grander "arc de roux" that Gavras would soon recommence.
Notre Jour Viendra, however it was conceived, portrays the struggle of two men with red hair. They may not live in the same world as the poor guys in "Born Free," but their existences are duly threatened by a set of much more realistic circumstances; latent discrimination against redheads in everyday life. With little explanation, Gavras' strange directorial debut takes the idea of the embattled redhead (not to be mistaken for some esoteric metaphor, this time) and brings us to the break of a silent swell of irate frustration in a saga of the same thread, already begun in a land far away.
The tale unravels with precision and fury, yet leaving quite a bit of room to the imagination. Gavras makes direct hits with every point of humor, but the hearty laughs ring out across an expanse of cruelty that we ourselves must question, and that our two protagonists, Patrick (Cassel) and Rémy (Barthelemy) are determined to traverse. Of the duo, Rémy, with hair the color of earthy rhubarb, the young man, might be seen as the "Born Free" video to Patrick's Notre Jour Viendra. Rémy is young and foolish. The world hates him. He understands neither himself nor the way the people treat him; senselessly. Patrick is middle-aged, somewhere between auburn and gray. A practiced red-head with a bitter, wizened view of the big picture. Which he finds himself orienting young Rémy with on their charge north to Ireland, a perceived haven for their kind. But what begins as a half-hearted escape escalates with ever-growing magnitude during a serious of encounters with a computer lab full of gamers, some Arabs at a bar, a car salesman, and some knockabout kids among others.
Sébastien Akchoté's original score deftly permits the audience to revel in the fleeting pleasure of the film's happier moments, but unrelenting in its careening trajectory towards an ominous and unimaginable (yet potentially glorious) outcome. Darker than drugs, Bergman bleak, played with subtle irreverence, and full of scenes that beg multiple interpretations and viewings, Notre Jour Viendra marches defiantly— and unravels maddeningly — towards its crescendo in 80 short minutes to claim mortal entry into any "Best of 2010" list that a disappointing number of sleepy, groove-lacking critics should be revising with fearful diligence...just in case the beautiful, red creatures of the world manage to forsake their impending extinction of rumor and rise up with the flames of savage retribution for the cruel prejudice and chilling apathy they've endured for so long.
Here's hoping for a third act to come in this provocative, inspired chronicle. Vive les roux! Vive les vermäs!
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vermä 1. noun an attractive person with red hair 2. interjection used to express admiration for or attraction to someone with red hair 3. adjective vibrantly or alluringly red -
I_Ailurophile24 November 2023The thing is, the premise sounds like the set-up for a comedy. Once we begin watching, though, we're greeted with substantial fatphobia, homophobia, ableism, and misogyny, domestic violence, bullying, and discussion of self-harm and suicide. That's all within the first fifteen minutes; in the very next scene there's racism, imperialist attitudes, cruelty for its own sake, and sexual assault. All these facets will continue to be major, dominant factors, with more to come, and more extreme examples of all. Suffice to say that this is not a comedy, and as a drama it's less than appealing right from the start. I'm a big fan of Vincent Cassel, and I'm a redhead, and for these reasons alone 'Notre jour viendra' sounded sights unseen something that I needed to check out for myself. To actually sit and watch, though - well, I found myself hoping it would get better. And I still kept hoping. And then still more. Oh well. Someone finds this meaningful, but it's not me. One can discern traces of what the end result could have been with better writing, yet that's about the best that can be said for it.
What's bizarre is that it feels like filmmaker Romain Gavras and co-writer Karim Boukercha did things backwards. The premise sounds fun; the root ideas of the scene writing seem primed for a comedy, or at least a comedy-drama. Once those root ideas are fleshed out, however, and dialogue and characters are added in, the picture instead becomes downbeat and downright questionable. We're given the story of one self-loathing outcast, harangued by unlikable people, who decides to claim agency by himself becoming incredibly unlikable and irresponsible, and more so when he partners with a man who (a) is at least as unlikable, and (b) has no actual reason to be associating with the outcast in the first place. It's like the buddy comedy and the road trip blended together with multiple flavors of drama, including crime first and foremost, and the result isn't enjoyable in any regard - just flummoxing. We're treated to a peculiar grab bag of everything, and it absolutely comes across as a movie that didn't know what it wanted to be. In fact, it seems rather clueless.
It's well made, I guess? The cast is fine, I guess? The music is probably the one reliably good thing here. There actually are many ideas here that could have been terrific if they were employed in a manner that made any sense. As it stands 'Notre jour viendra' is scattered and all but nonsensical, sometimes so much so that it rather seems as if it were actually intended as a surrealist art flick - but no, it's just perpetually confused. A would-be sex scene between Cassel's character and far younger women is the most normal, sensible, and cohesive that these ninety minutes get, but that's not saying much. It's evident that Gavras and Boukercha had a vision of some sort when they conjured their screenplay and brought it to life, but darned if I have any idea what it was supposed to be. I'm glad for those who somehow manage to get something out of this; I just don't know how they do it, for as far as I'm concerned the title manages to get worse as it goes on. Whatever it is you're hoping to get out of 'Notre jour viendra,' look elsewhere. This is simply not worth your time. -
I attended the screening of "Our Day Will Come" at SXSW and I was pleasantly surprised. The movie is a road rage of destruction and carnage and I sat at the edge of my seat and just thought how cool is this! However after seeing the movie I had completely fallen in love with it, but afterwards as I saw it once again, I began to realize some flaws.
First and foremost the dialogue feels forced at some times. In a certain scene Romain Gavras seems unsure on how to proceed and suddenly skips to the next scene and makes the following scene a bit unbelievable.
Second it seems unrealistic, that the boy in the movie really thinks his utopia is Ireland. It feels more like an excuse to get the film moving forward.
This being said the movie has one of the best psychedelic soundtracks and it makes the ending even more memorable and emotional.
The cinematography is also sublime. It reflects perfectly how the main characters feel.
Vincent Cassel plays his character with a cool ironic distance and with a spark in his eye, which makes him more believable as the intelligent and arrogant man he plays.
All in all this movie doesn't not play on dialogue, but its force is the way it depicts an emotional meltdown for two persons and how it effects the world around them. The movie brings back memories to when I saw "Clean, Shaven" and "Our Day Will Come" is definitely in my top 10 movies of all time. -
gufi-0442913 March 2019The movie is... trash. It's short but it felt like I lost three hours of my life because the film is just stupid, boring and meaningless. I give 4 (and that's generous). If you still wanna watch it the only thing that's worth it, is maybe one or two scenes and Camille Rowe, a total beauty.
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gianmarcoronconi19 January 2024This is not a real review, it should be understood more as a collection of impressions on the film.
Let's say this, if one wants to watch a film that is needlessly strange and senseless then this is the film for him because otherwise he will only find himself in front of senseless confusion without a real plot, indeed, there is a plot and it takes only halfway through the film and without a real meaning, even at the beginning it would like to have a plot and also have a moral, instead it only manages to give the spectator a terrible and terrible confusion without rhyme or reason, which is why I believe that this film is almost a waste of time.