Our Day Will Come/Notre Jour Viendra (2010) or, The Redhead Nutsos

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A dull red is used to color a picture of the two strange-looking, bald-shaved lead characters on this poster for Romain Gavras' Our Day Will Come

An aberrant young man gets enough of his vile surroundings, attacks his mother and runs away from home. Soon he has made a friendship with a just as mad local psychologist, both of them redheads.

 

Our Day Will Come is written by Karim Boukercha (Capital/Le Capital (2012)) and debuting co-writer/director Romain Gavras (Athena (2022)). The English title is a literal translation of the original French title.

The bizarre plot can be interpreted as a young and an older version of essentially the same character, who go on a criminal amuck run towards freedom and brotherhood for redheads - in Ireland...

Our Day Will Come is an insane and unpredictable film with a volatile energy and need to provoke with transgressions. It may be immature, but I also found it very entertaining in a punky way, especially thanks to the deeply dedicated performances of leads Vincent Cassel (Les Cigognes n'en Font qu'à Leur Tête (1989)), who also co-produced, and Olivier Barhélémy (Truands (2007)). It looks like the year's screwy debut rocket.

 

Watch a 1-minute clip from the film here

 

Cost: Unknown

Box office: In excess of 238k $

= Uncertain but likely a box office disaster (projected return of 0.1 times its cost)

[Our Day Will Come premiered 12 September (Toronto International Film Festival) and runs 90 minutes. Details about the film's production, financing and release are scarce. Most of the listed release countries are not reported on the film's Box Office Mojo site, which only lists a 3k $ UK gross. The film sold 34,925 tickets in France (according to AlloCiné), coming to around 230k $ at an average 6.33 € ticket prize at the time. It sold 449 tickets in Denmark, another of the handful of likely very small other markets, coming to around 5k $. If made on a low, realistic 2.5 mil. $ budget, and with a final gross of estimated 250k $, the film would rank as a box office disaster. Gavras returned with 7 commercials and music videos prior to his theatrical return with The World Is Yours/Le Monde Est à Toi (2018). Cassel returned in The Monk/Le Moine (2011); Barthélémy in Le Mal Dans le Sang (2010, short)) and theatrically in Largo Winch II (2011). Our Day Will Come is rotten at 45 % with a 5.80/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

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