Rémi sans famille

I have read the book several times, it is my all time best book that i ever read. Remi was my friend in my imaginary dreams when i was a child, so i can say that i watched this movie with a lot of interest. I loved the music, i loved how Vitalis played. But i just can't give it a 10. I understand that this is a movie, and it's like 5% of the entire book, you'd need a miniseries to cover all the adventures that Remi goes through. However, i don't understand why some plots are changed so much and i think, as someone said earlier, that the action should've been more on Remi's very harsh life. He seems to have like a fairytale adventure, which is not in accordance with the book. Again, the music is brilliant. And when i was a kid, i imagined Vitalis being like that guy, so that's great.

Remi Sans Famille: We recorded this movie on the strength of Daniel Auteuil mentioned on the credit and also for our grandchildren due to spend some time with us during their school holiday. (This did not happen thanks to Covid 19!) But we had a look at it recently. "Sans Famille" rang a bell in my mind from my youth days but I could not recall it at all. Did I read the book or heard it on radio as a weekly session, I just don't know anymore. I have to say though, I found the film rather disappointing and surprised it scores an average of 7+. Despite living the end of my 8th decade I still do find children's story very enjoyable. Recently I have seen Belle and Sebastien X3, Heidi, The school of life with much pleasure. (again thanks to C19!) So what went wrong for me with "Remi Nobody's Boy"? It had one of my favourite actor, a cute kid and such a nice setting (yes, without knowing I felt the area was within the "Massif Central", (old mountains in the centre of France) where I spent only one Summer vacations with my boarding school crowd. A wonderful area that left such nice memories in my mind despite the short experience it was. I also loved Capi the dog and Rousette the cow, not so sure about Jolie Coeur the monkey! But perhaps what got my nose out of joint was I felt the story was also a little out of joint. It is quite all over the place (yet speaking French!). The old man telling his story as a kid did not work for me. I would have much prefer to get it straight as it happened. Then the unthinkable happens... And this again did not work for me, perhaps it did and will for others. ...Struggling to exhaustion in the snow with a burning lamp? Then a nice camp fire, again on the snow, made pretty pictures but seemed a little unnatural. I would also say the outcome is pretty predictable, which I have to concede is not always a bad thing. However I have seen plenty well touted movies which left my friends and I rather confused. Perhaps I was expecting too much and may have, also, got up on the wrong side of the bed on that particular day! I hope it will be a better experience for you.

As a child, I grew up watching the dubbed version of the Japanese animation series (Nobody's Boy Remi) in Arabic in the early 90s. Since then, it's been one of my favorite anime series/cartoons of all time, and with it I have developed my very first experience with the drama grief feelings and sadness. Shyly 30 years later, I came to know about its adaption in this movie and I was terrified that they'd ruin it for me (This has been the case in most of old good movies adaption, sequences and remakes). They say do not judge a book by its cover; but Remi's movie poster alone looked promising and it looked so familiar so, with my fingers crossed, I decided to give it a go and no, I was not disappointed. Re-watching Remi's story as an adult, I got to re-live all the characters moments and all what they go through minute by minute without being betrayed by the filmmakers to shock us with any major changes to the story but instead to a deeper and more mature adaption than the cartoon I watched as a kid. On top of all this; what I loved about this movie the most is that the filmmakers did not only stayed true to the story but they even went deeper and beyond to give you the closest resembling of Remi's main characters, and captured you inside their sad struggling atmosphere and the music was gently the cherry on top.

Great family movie - Cesar worthy! This rewrite of the famous French novel is very touching, very well directed and filmed. It will definitely appeal to all who grew up with the eponymous series. Great acting by Daniel Auteuil and Maleaume Paquin in particular. The addition of an "after story" with an older Rémi is also an interesting one. We highly recommend it, including with kids.

I read the novel, and honestly I'm a bit disappointed with the movie. The spirit of Hector Malot is somewhat missing, and there're a few illogical moments in the movie, like when Vitalis and Remi went to London, where did they get the money to do that? and Mattia, a very important character, is missing. Still, the acting and the soundtrack made it up for the lack of original spirit. Perhaps it's just the book itself is so great that the movie cannot reach to that level of finesse.

The main actor performs excellently and the music is perfect. The film has pruned some parts of the former plot in order not to make it too long (I guess) though it is a good one to see.