La famille Bélier

Nestled in the French countryside, La famille Bélier proactively propels.

Tired of the pejoratively polite glad handing of the long standing local mayor, Rodolphe Bélier (François Damiens) takes a virile stand.

Concurrently, his daughter, young Paula (Louane Emera), discovers she has a talent for singing, and the lure of the big city suddenly complicates her steady bucolic stamina.

Political fights and Parisian heights then dominate their social reflexivity, as change blossoms and grows, and democracy asserts its egalitarian heritage.

With comic un/characteristic aggression.

A triumph of the human spirit, La famille Bélier boldly demonstrates the potential inclusiveness invigorates, juxtaposing debilitating doubts with overzealous confidence to familialize the tenacious and the timorous, while heartbreakingly accentuating a challenging component of différence.

But said différence and its fortunate opportunity serve to strengthen through the act of disintegrating, risk's embrace hallowing assured vested calm.

M. Bélier makes the jump into politics quite rapidly, his potency augmented thereby, although a couple of additional transition scenes would have quietly validated his decision.

It's quite patriarchal.

Tough to say what galvanizes his backbone.

He's reading a book about François Hollande but would rule with strict unsympathetic objectivity.

There's a well rounded cast whose quirks and qualms playfully comment on urban and rural realities.

Which playfully flirt.

While remaining tantalizingly afield.

Note: the focus is on Paula.