Shooting Star

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Audience Member It's a lighthearted comedy about four archetypes of female finalists (all of them played by Claudine Mercier, somehow like Michel Cote plays the four protagonists in Cruising Bar 1 and 2 (Menard 1991; Cote et Menard 2008) ) in a singing talent reality show taking place in Montreal. The acting performance is outstanding. The social commentary about the heavily commercial and artificial nature of reality tv, and the shallow harshness of the showbusiness industry at large, is everywhere, but rather subtle (unlike in Stardom (Arcand 2000) ). Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Un drôle de satire envers la télé-réalité. Pas toujours drôle, mais toujours divertissant. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Un commentaire sardonique sur le phénomène de la télé-réalité... plusieurs instants de rire garantis! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Approche originale et honnete du phenomene de la tele-realite. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Génial, Louise Turcot est super! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member I wonder, sometimes, if there are people outside of Quebec who have a fetish for these movies. I mean, some people have heavy obsessions for specifically foreign films, but Quebec comedies have a habit of being very tacky, and this tacky kind of humour is generally very well received locally. But I wonder, I really wonder, who else is watching these. The movie feels like somewhat of a lackluster, but that fact is critical to the movie's sense of ridicule that it must maintain. Idole Instantanée is a satire on reality TV, specifically, Star Academie, which is the french spinoff of American Idol. It's not just a spoof on these types of shows and it's participants: it's also about the snotty cast and producers, the crazed opinionated fans of the show and the personal lives of the participants. In this case, all four participants to this singing talent show, are the same actress who embodies four stereotypical characters: the slutty rocker mother of three, the silent and geekish girl from a paranoid family, the always-smiling I'm-not miserable single chick, and the blond bombshell who's controlling mother dreams of being popular via her daughter's fame. Through this avalanche of theatrical exagerrations, social commentary slowly creeps it's mandatory way in. The ridicule portrayed by the movie is only second to how ridiculous people really get about these shows: the finger is pointed at you. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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