Coexister (2017)

	Also Known As: Ein Lied in Gottes Ohr
	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Fabrice Éboué
	Actors: Fabrice Éboué, Jonathan Cohen, Guillaume de Tonquédec, Ramzy Bedia, Audrey Lamy, Mathilde Seigner
	Country: F
	Genre: Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 29.07.2018, Schauburg, French version with German subtitle
Synopsis: The music production company of Nicolas Lejeune (Éboué) belongs to the group Demanche ruled by Sophie Demanche (Seigner) and the shareholders. To keep his job he has make a success band within 6 months. His idea, to make rabbi Samuel (Cohen), priest Benoît (de Tonquédec) and an Imam (Bedia) sing together.
Review: Basically the challenge taken by Nicolas Lejeune with the band Coexister is like the challenge taken by Fabrice Éboué with the homonymous movie. Mix up three religions with their stereotypes, try to force them work together and film what is coming out of it. To make the religious people or pseudo-religious people more friendly for the mortals Éboué give them some sins or weaknesses that are coming every now and then via recurring jokes.  The Muslim drunkard and womanizer. The Jewish sleepless depressed drug-addict. The Catholic abstinent innocent. All notice that they need to make this band together and manage to find what each one does good and put it together. All the disputes are then taken and wiped out with humour. Time to time the disputes and egos prevail and bring mess. But they all see then that it was stupid and say it and apologize. This is the good message of both Coexister, the band and the movie.  The caricatural acting is sometimes heavy to digest especially when the character has only one face, like priest Benoît. Therefore I had the impression to see some scenes and dialogues repeatedly and this is quite annoying to me.
Rating: 5 /10