It’s almost a surprise to find it on TV. Even though he has already shot for the small screen, the director Fabien Onteniente is best known for his comedies on the big screen, more particularly the Camping with Frank Dubosc. Offered this Tuesday as a bonus on France 3 , 100 % Organic is indeed a TV movie, even if it was originally thought for the cinema, with Christian Clavier. “Not in the timing”, confides the filmmaker to Parisian .
Didier Bourdon finally plays the leading role of Gabi Moreno, a Basque pork butcher who takes a dim view of the relationship between his daughter Marie and Thomas, a Parisian physiotherapist… and vegan. You read that right, it almost sounds like a parody, but no. From there to expecting a series of clichés and valves on vegan, there is only one step, and we wanted to check with a bingo game inspired by that of the omnivorous argumentation found on the site of Insolente Veggie . So with a few spoilers.
The vegan, inevitably a Parisian bobo on a seed-eating bike
“Honey, you’ll be happy, I found some pumpkin and azuki seeds. Thomas’ first appearance sets the tone and announces the best (the worst) for the future. Be vegan in 100% Bio , it’s eating seeds and herbs (“it’s a real golf course in there”)… And that’s all ? Oh no, it’s also practicing yoga, going to seminars and driving an electric car, and therefore getting drunk (!). You do not see the report ? And the difference between veganism, vegetarianism, veganism? This is not the question, “a vegan is a vegetarian and worse” sums up one character. The TV movie also maintains the vagueness, and mixes everything, between vegan and organic, on the altar of the joke. “I’ll have jasmine tea. – I’ll bring you organic tapas then. »Uh… thank you?
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“Come on, taste, you’ll see, it’s good”
When he arrives at his in-laws unexpectedly, having a meal, Thomas, or rather “the vegan” as the father calls him, is served a pig’s trotters. And is invited to taste. Oddly, he doesn’t have to pray too much, and guess what? He soon twists all over the place, before throwing up his guts and, of course, getting mad at everyone. “Oh ça vaaaa”, to be heard with the accent of Didier Bourdon and the cicadas, as in the sketch The Cid of the Unknowns. When it is his turn to eat seeds, always them, he will go straight to the toilet. This is THE scene of 20% Bio , stepfather and son-in-law compete in mode Grande Bouffe , with hare balls versus green wakame algae from Fukushima.
“Maybe he has a holistic perspective, this pig?”
“He mainly has an economic perspective” pic.twitter.com/eGjrlyY5LE– Boris Bastide (@BorisBastide) January 5, 648
Animal welfare and the future of the planet, okay, but soft
Twice, the TV movie tries to put its initial pitch into perspective, but not too much. When Gabi wants to kill his ‘raised like a prince’ competition pig, the vegan calls for animal welfare, even if he concedes that it is better than in slaughterhouses, and goes to talk to the pig to calm him down and ‘he fulfills his “destiny”. In another scene, a priori anecdotal but more problematic, Thomas explains his choice of vegan lifestyle, and how he helps save the planet, on his own scale. A speech that plunges everyone into silence and that seems to put the aunt played by Catherine Jacob to sleep. Ah, but no, nothing to see, she always does that, she is the victim of micro-naps. Lol? This allows above all to end the discussion with a pirouette, and not to dwell too much on the subject.
Can we play bingo?
Anyway, the meat / vegan opposition doesn’t inspire more than that Fabien Onteniente. And he leaves us with our half-filled bingo. Indeed, very quickly, the director returns to the springs already seen of the Franchouillarde comedy, based on regional warfare and conflict between father-in-law and son-in-law. He is more interested in the character of Didier Bourdon and what he represents of his adopted region, the Basque Country , namely that behind, there too, the big clichés, “there is heart here” to quote the vegan. We will resume our bingo at the exit of Barbaque by Fabrice Eboué, where a couple of butchers accidentally kills a vegan activist … and sells him in ham