OSS 117: From Africa with Love

Original title: OSS 117: Alerte rouge en Afrique noire

2021
1h 57m

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5.8/10

6.2K

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Habib Dembélé, Jean Dujardin, Ivan Franek, Natacha Lindinger, Fatou N'Diaye, Wladimir Yordanoff, and Pierre Niney in OSS 117: From Africa with Love (2021)

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The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

6.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

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Trivia
Director Michel Hazanavicius' original plan was to feature an aging and bald OSS 117, set the film in the 1970s and take inspiration from blaxploitation movies. Screenwriter Jean-François Halin refused to age the character, keeping him young as he was in the previous films, which would make the timeline of the series a floating one. The only plan to carry over from the original idea was to set the story in an African country. The movie now takes place in the 1980s.

Goofs
OSS 117 is going to the SDECE offices (French intelligence service in the 70's) near the Eiffel Tower. The intelligence service offices were, and still are, boulevard Mortier, in the south of Paris, quite far from the Eiffel Tower.

Crazy credits
The movie opens with Gaumont 80's logo.

Connections
Edited into Indy Eka: From Africa with Love (2021)

Soundtracks
Oh Fields My Fields
Lyrics by Viktor Gusev and music by Lev Knipper
Performed by The Red Army Choir (as Les Choeurs de L'Armée Rouge)

Now I could be referring to Bond and OSS117 or I could be referring to the new member of the OSS team (1001). Or maybe both of course. But let's be clear, this movie does not care if you are offended - something that I would like to believe the Bond movie would not agree with. They tried to let the character grow - for better or worse. And whether the viewers liked what they saw or they didn't.

OSS on the other hand - he remains ignorant, sexist and racist. And yet Jean Dujardin fills the role with such an amazing performance and charisma, you kind of feel for the guy. Even when he says the most horrible and cringe worthy things - and believe he says quite a lot of those. You will not find just a few reasons to be offended here.

Apart from immature jokes, there are some political jokes too though. The role of France as colonials, but also Politicians of the 80s and communism ... you may not feel that they did the best job in handling certain themes, but you at least might want to give the movie kudos for even tackling them ... and while it does not reach the heights of the first two movies (it's been 12 years already since Part 2 came out?), it still is more than a solid movie right here. Still haven't watched the older OSS movies ... gotta push them up my watch list.