Myriam Nys
Young Rosalie has been raised by her mother and step-father. Her father, a professional writer, likes her but isn't much of a parent. When Rosalie steals a usb-stick containing his latest novel, her father is obliged to follow her on her travels. This includes becoming one of the adult supervisors for a group of children and adolescents on skiing school... This must be one of the laziest French-language comedies in years. It consistently picks the lowest hanging fruit, by creating the easiest stereotypes and going for the easiest, oldest, most predictable jokes and gags. It is also too lazy to bother much about logic and plausibility. For instance, there can't be too many professional and financially successful writers, in real life, who are stupid enough to store their new novel on one and one appliance only. The redemption story too is unimpressive. Here you've got a complacent and self-absorbed egotist who, after a week in the snowy mountains, becomes a better person and restores his bond with his estranged daughter. Sigh. There's also a vein of nastiness and vulgarity running through "Tout schuss" : some of the dialogue is hair-raising and some of the characters are seriously obnoxious. Moreover, I doubt whether the real-life inhabitants of these snow-kissed lands will regard their portrayal as flattering. Last but not least there is lead actor José Garcia, who hams it up like nobody's business and plays the author as some crazed idiot high on.. (High on what, precisely - drink, drugs, his own gigantic self-esteem ? Caffeine ? Pea soup ?
But he's high, that's clear.) Still, it's entirely possible that Mr. Garcia received very little in the way of support. Like I've said, it's not as if scores of hard-working, hard-thinking people slaved over the story and screenplay...But the scenery looks nice.
