
Directed and starred by French national treasure comedian Danny Byrne, the highly acclaimed laughter and tearful work "Welcome to the North II" has been announced to be set for May 10. The "Welcome to the North II" series actually has a lot of beginnings, as early as the first release, it created a box office miracle in the history of French cinema, breaking the 42-year-long French film box office record at that time. After 7 years, Danny Byrne once again focused on the family theme, bringing a new story "Welcome to the North II", which once again received acclaim after its release in France and entered the top 3 of the annual box office in 2018, becoming one of the must-see hot films in France. Today, the filmmakers released the ultimate poster and the ultimate trailer of the film, and the picture of the male protagonist reuniting with his family on the poster is very warm and moving.
Struggling with family and ideals, laughing and laughing on the road of life and crying
In the film, it tells the story of the male protagonist "floating" in Paris for his own design ideals. In fact, about drifting, it is a perfectly normal thing, and the vast majority of people in our lives are almost all drifting. Every year, there are constantly a huge crowd of people, from all parts of the country, from the north and the south of the world, to the rural towns to the materialistic north, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other metropolises, everyone is fighting for their own ideals.
The same is true of the male protagonist Valentin, born in a small town in the north of France, driving the car his father assembled for him to Paris, in order to enter the higher class and climb upwards, in this process, in order to achieve a career, had to cater to the atmosphere of the Paris class circle, packaging himself as an "orphan". It wasn't until my mother came to Paris to reveal the truth and experienced a series of coincidental amnesia that she truly realized the people and things she should cherish the most. Under the cloak of comedy, the film focuses on the contradictory state between those who are "wandering" for ideals and survival, and is a warm comedy film that makes people laugh and laugh and cry.
Do you dare to invite your former self to visit your current world?
Now life is full of packaging, goods need to be packaged in order to sell, music needs to be heard by more people needs to be packaged, and even people themselves, in order to be seen by more people and have better development, they also have to need packaging. The male protagonist Valentine is exactly like this, facing the materialistic metropolis of Paris, he has to give up everything about the north, and uses another perfectly packaged self to plan every road to be taken next, and even lost here and lost his family. Fortunately, he lost his memory in a car accident, fortunately, he went back to the memory of 17 years old, and fortunately, he made the right choice when he faced his own 17 years old. But if we diverged from another idea, if Valentine hadn't lost her memory in a car accident, where would the story have gone? Not surprisingly, if this is the case, then Valentine will continue to stay in his own class circle, in order to realize his designer's ideals, continue to design those crappy design works whose form is greater than the content, and still enjoy his ideal achievements in the lies he has made up, which will inevitably be farther and farther away from the family who loves him the most, until he finally falls apart from the north and the people who love him the most...
Back to reality again, without the plot writing, it is almost impossible for us to return to the memory of only 17 years old like the male protagonist. But we can still imagine that if there is a chance that our memory can go back to the age of 17, what was our goal at that time? Will our values at that time understand all our choices now, and can we understand the class circle in which we live now? Will you like the current self who seems to be smooth and mature? There are no standard answers to these questions, but perhaps after watching Welcome to the North II, you may make yourself more aware of how to balance ideals and reality.
Welcome to the North II will land in theaters nationwide on May 10.