What age is My Cousin (Mon cousin) appropriate for?

10 alone, 9 with a parent; 10 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is My Cousin (Mon cousin) not recommended under 10?

What's in it: a fragile cousin, a family story; about twenty swear words; comedy rifles and a fight. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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My Cousin (Mon cousin): what age is it for? 10 alone, 9 with a parent

10 alone, 9 with a parent.

Movie · 2020 · 1 h 44 · comedy

YRS

The trailer

Alone, or with you

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

Alone from 10; from 9, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

The sweet spot: around 12-14, when you have a cousin or an uncle people call odd, and can see that he is often right. Why a sweet spot?

In France, zinema would say 10.

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What it's about

Pierre is the highly successful CEO of a large family-owned company. Before signing the deal of the century, he has to settle one last formality: obtain the signature of his cousin Adrien who owns 50% of his firm. This sweet, idealistic dreamer, who makes one blunder after another, is so happy to see Pierre again that he wants to spend time with him and delay the moment of signing. So Pierre has no choice but to take his cousin with him on a turbulent business trip during which his patience will be put to the test.

Why 10

A fragile cousin, a family storyThe cousin is fresh out of a clinic, says everything he thinks and puts his boss of a cousin in impossible situations; the family's dead are talked about, an inheritance is disputed. Brief tears.
About twenty swear wordsFrench expletives: the language of a man in a hurry. Wine, cigarettes, a suggested bed scene.
Comedy rifles and a fightRifles held by amateurs in the countryside, a brief fight, shouting; all played for laughs, nobody gets hurt.

What the movie brings

A French road movie where the family's madman is more right than the boss.
The question of what you sell when you sell a family business.
Vincent Lindon and François Damiens, a duo that makes any age laugh.

Watching it together

Before

Say beforehand that the cousin was treated for his mind, so that people laugh with him and not at him.

After

at 10 and up

The cousin always tells the truth and makes everyone uncomfortable: is it better to lie a little or say everything?

See the facts

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