Breathing drolly enjoyable new life into an old genre and adding new riffs on the theme of small town boredom, debut director Thomas Cailley’s decidedly skewed romantic-comedy throws together mild, take-it-as-it-comes young Arnaud (Kevin Azaïs), a small-town guy working in his family’s timber plant, and hard-as-nails Madeleine (Adèle Haenel), a young survivalist with visions of the Apocalypse, to relentlessly funny effect. When he follows her into an army training course, the acerbic barbs in Cailley and Claude Le Pape’s screenplay fly between the mismatched couple faster than the paintball bullets in their near–lethal guns.
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