The Common Man

The Common Man

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Release Date

2/26/1975

Runtime

90 mins

Genres

Overview

Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...

Status

Released

Original Language

French

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A deceptively ordinary summer holiday snapshot that curdles into an examination of casual xenophobia and mob violence simmering beneath French provincial life. The film confronts how ordinary people become instruments of injustice.

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Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Steady

Structure

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