This one is a lot of fun. Nuns + cycling is the combo we didn't know we needed and this farce from director Laurent Tirard provides a marvellous cheerfully blasphemous confection.
St Benedicts convent somewhere in rural France gets involved in a local cycling race hoping to use the prize money to bolster the funding for an old people's home. But only one of the sisters, trainee Gwendoline, shows any aptitude on a bike. Then a crew of rival nuns turn up and things get ugly....
Well, as ugly as a comedy about cycling nuns can get. The two mothers superior turn out to be old frenemies and concoct various schemes to do each other down. It is great fun watching nuns be devious and I did laugh out loud several times. For one brief moment it looks like the two trainees might run off but the mothers get it together and nobody goes to hell. Phew.
Oh My Goodness! (Juste Ciel) opens in the UK on 14 March.
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