Our Day Will Come

Dont waste 90 mins of your life watching this rubbish, we love french films normally and expect the weird and disturbed, but this film just gives nothing.

Truly original film, typically French and detached- speeds along like a nightmare in some parts but there is catharsis, at least that's how I felt anyhow. A little gem, give it a go and hopefully you wont be dissapointed

This is one of the best films I have ever seen. I have seen it twice and it has blown my mind each time. Everything about this film is pure genius. It is a masterpiece. Ave Romain Gavras.

A generally interesting film that seems to miss the rather interesting premises it begins with. Ideas of discrimination (in this case being born with red hair, apparently an easy discriminatory target in France), ideas of nihilism and mindlessly following a goal. These are all interesting points and the two main characters deal with them in different ways from different points of view. However there are no resolutions, no character progression, story development or real examinations of these topics; it seems to be a road movie that runs primarily on fumes. Perhaps worth the watch if you are a fan of Vincent Cassel but ultimately I think this film will leave you with the feeling of missed opportunities... like the love you felt for that girl/boy from afar but never had the courage to deal with them head on.

“Our Day Will Come” isn’t an entirely hateful film, but it is one that I have extreme reservations about. It is its more unusual qualities that manage to make it both appealing and appalling at the same time, and the first thing to accept is that “anything goes”; both logic and motivation as we know it is simply discarded within the first ten minutes, and then you have to simply free fall or drift along with the film until its highly surreal end. There are no flashbacks or anything that might really flesh out the main characters’ motivations – even the murderous tyre Robert in the movie “Rubber” can think about his past when he catches a glimpse of himself in a mirror. There are many films which feature manipulative or villainous psychiatrists and Patrick (Vincent Cassel) is no exception to this rule. He “helps” Remy (Olivier Barthelemy) to release his pent up emotions with inevitably escalating violence. In fact I wouldn’t want to bump into these two in a dark alley – or anywhere else for that matter, so when a group of girls dive into a hotel swimming pool and spot Remy staring morosely and clutching his crossbow the fact that their initial reaction is “ohh he looks sad” is a tad surprising. Even the instinct of the most adventurous person would surely be to get out of there as quickly as possible? I would call the film homophobic - Remy’s sexuality is constantly being called into question in a negative way, but what is more disturbing is the amount of hatred displayed by Patrick – for everyone he encounters. In the end I lost interest in the fates of the two characters, but still felt slightly sorry for the weaker guy, and found myself wishing he had hooked up with someone a little less perverse than his troubled psychiatrist. There is a chance that I’m missing the point of this movie and that the director is simply playing devil’s advocate in examining issues around violence, perhaps the idea that you never get below the surface of their characters is a key one – do we care about their backstories or the motivations for their actions? Or is it easier simply to see them as a blank page to project our fears upon? The revenge of the red heads, which is the nub of this movie, is presumably an analogy about how any group can move from being the oppressed to the oppressors and it is an extension of Romain Gavras’ brilliant but controversial music video for Born Free by M. I. A. In the end I’m not sure how much is actually gained by extending this idea into a 90 minute film.