Sara Forestier won the César for Best Actress for her performance in this racy, racial French comedy as Baya Benmahmoud, a beautiful free spirit who converts right-wing men to her left-wing causes by seducing them. One day this young, extroverted liberal with an Algerian father meets Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin), a scientist who is middle-aged, middle-of-the-road and Jewish. Bound in part by common family tragedies (the Algerian War and the Holocaust under Vichy), this improbable duo fall in love and the sparks fly. Amid the sexy humor and zany moments, co-writers Michel Leclerc and Baya Kasmi (who also shared the César for Best Original Screenplay) inject satirical riffs on such hot-button issues as Arab-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism, immigration and racial and cultural identity. Rated R. In French with English subtitles. Director: Michel Leclerc. (France 2010).
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