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With todays garbage movies this is a very nice movie. I loved this story as a kid. In this movie the acting was fine musici nice and excellent visuals.

If they made it a bit longer and added the missing story parts and characters I would have given This movie a 9 of 10

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.

I got to watch this movie because my father and brother love the novel, i myself have never read it. Knowing almost nothing about the plot, after the film finished I felt unsatisfy because even though this film has all the material needed to become a classic: great acting, good music, great original plot from the novel,... but it missed the struggle needed to make us feel for Remi (the main character). Basically in his status he should have had an excruciating hard life but instead in this movie almost every people loved him and treat him kind and protect him, he never actually has to do anything on his own to survive and in the end he still get happily rewarded. So that really make me feel unsatisfy because the movie could have been so much better. Thank you for reading until the end, forgive me if there are mistakes in this review because I'm not a native English user.

Having grown up with the caricature, and the written novel, after the multiple chapters of stories and adventures between Mr. Vitali and Remi, I can say that the film was too short, the Mr. Vitali lacked a little more harshness in the character, although the expression of the child that makes remi is correct could be better more from him ,Remi have to much to give. That feeling of empathy to their sad eventualities as it is the novel, was something that I lack in this film, it is achieved in a certain way an empathy but for those who read and grow up with that story, it leaves you with a feeling of emptiness, it's fine but not ... the photography is quite pleasant in the film, there is no doubt that the locations were successful, although generations that had never heard of Remi, feel a pity for the character, but to be honest needed much more tragedy and a little more film . you get to the end so fast, and at the end of the plot that leaves you with I want more, I think the right thing would have been a trilogy, in the best of cases the classic part 1 and 2, so that the story had more impact and a better outcome of the plot.

It is always nice to pick up things from childhood.

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.

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.

It tells you to never lose hope. Even in the darkest hours of your life, when you feel there's none. Because you'll never know what's in store for you in the future.

And if you are determined to learn something, you will learn it little by little til it grows big. Especially when you have the purpose why you wanna learn. In Remi's case, he wanted to learn the alphabet so that he could know how to assemble the letters in words and in sentence. So that he could write letters to her mom Barbaran.

Life is like a Ferris wheel. It keeps spinning and spinning. You could be the next on top. Just keep moving.

Great movie. Everyone who has or has not read the story should watch this.

I watched this film in italian, could not totally follow every small details but in general i follow the main plots, stll i cried a lot at the end of the film. The main actor Maestro in this film is unbeatable, music is really good. We find sympathy with the character Remi because he is like a ball, being kicked to different persons, from here to there, it is not something he can choose as it is destiny...an orphan is borned to be unlucky. Yet he is lucky to be in the hand of a great guy, who is looking for paying off his sin of mistakenly killed his own son and wife. The character of this boy is surely not as attractive as the Maestro, but he take active role in choosing his own destiny (once in Lisa home and the other time is when he was sent to the family which pretend to be his). This boy choose letting Maestro to go and cure his disease instead of crying in front of Maestro to take him away from this horrible family. Remi shows love and sacrifices to Maestro rather than a spoiled and selfish kid, and that makes him to be a great person in the future, and that is also why Maestro loves him to an extent that he did not care anymore about his own health an return to save him from the horrible family. Even though i found a bit cliche at the end of the film that actually Remi is borned in a rich family, i still love this film. This is a story mainly focuses on plot and characters building, our family enjoyed a lot. Thanks for the producer and director!

A really beautiful movie with good acting and a good story

The plot is dynamic! And it is really a good movie. strongly recommended!

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.

One of the most emotional movies I have ever seen. It could be a bit longer but I did like it!

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.