{"id":353234,"date":"2021-10-15T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-odd-job-men-review-charming-slight-yet-sharp-odd-couple-comedy\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T08:32:38","slug":"watch-the-odd-job-men-review-charming-slight-yet-sharp-odd-couple-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-odd-job-men-review-charming-slight-yet-sharp-odd-couple-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;The Odd-Job Men&#8217; Review: Charming, Slight Yet Sharp Odd-Couple Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a94fa0a114\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a94fa0a114\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-odd-job-men-review-charming-slight-yet-sharp-odd-couple-comedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Odd-Job_Men_Review_Charming_Slight_Yet_Sharp_Odd-Couple_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Odd-Job Men&#8217; Review: Charming, Slight Yet Sharp Odd-Couple Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-odd-job-men-review-charming-slight-yet-sharp-odd-couple-comedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Odd-Job_Men_Review_Charming_Slight_Yet_Sharp_Odd-Couple_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;The Odd-Job Men&#8217; Review: Charming, Slight Yet Sharp Odd-Couple Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-odd-job-men-review-charming-slight-yet-sharp-odd-couple-comedy\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-odd-job-men-review-charming-slight-yet-sharp-odd-couple-comedy\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98The_Odd-Job_Men_Review_Charming_Slight_Yet_Sharp_Odd-Couple_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;The Odd-Job Men&#8217; Review: Charming, Slight Yet Sharp Odd-Couple Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98The_Odd-Job_Men_Review_Charming_Slight_Yet_Sharp_Odd-Couple_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;The Odd-Job Men&#8217; Review: Charming, Slight Yet Sharp Odd-Couple Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        \u201cI don\u2019t know my neighbors. There is a wall between us,\u201d muses immigrant handyman Moha (Mohamed Mellali) in voiceover in Neus Ball\u00fas\u2019 deceptively modest, gently ingenious third feature, \u201cThe Odd-Job Men.\u201d \u201cWater, electricity, gas, telephone. Our building is connected to all the others in the city and to all the other cities. And yet, we\u2019re still alone.\u201d It\u2019s a nicely bittersweet summation of this crookedly charming film\u2019s central preoccupation with connection \u2014 tentatively formed and easily broken \u2014 between people separated as much by biases, culture, language and ethnicity as they are by the walls of their apartments. And who better to observe, maintain and repair some of those connections than the plumbers, electricians and builders we invite into our homes to service our utilities, to tile our splashbacks and de-ice the AC.<\/p>\n<p>The job of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing repairman is indeed an odd one in that it requires us to give screwdriver-wielding strangers brief but often surprisingly intimate access to our bedrooms, living rooms and lives. Calm, watchful Moha, who is working through a probationary week with this small Barcelona handyman firm in the hope of landing a permanent job, is certainly aware of that privilege. But short-tempered, long-faced, soft-bellied Valero (Valero Escolar), native to Barcelona and harboring various prejudices toward his younger, fitter new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rentice, seems much less struck by the philosophy of the profession. For him, there\u2019s little romance to a job he has done forever \u2014 and which perhaps he also resents a little, associating it with the inevitable disappointments and insecurities that come with middle age.<\/p>\n<p>Under the brisk, no-nonsense administration of his wife, Valero has worked for years as part of a two-man team alongside affable perfectionist Pep (Pep Sarr\u00e0). Aptly named, Pep is however in his sixties and about to retire, and so Moha, to whom Valero takes an instant, tacitly racist dislike, is being trained as his replacement. One of the strengths of Ball\u00fas\u2019 and Margarita Melgar\u2019s screenplay, which evolved after a long process of workshopping and improvisation with her non-professional cast, is in its lived-in dialogue and keen-eyed observation of the way we can hide behind language, especially when there is a language barrier: Valero, airily fobbing off his own innate prejudices onto other people, claims to be worried about hiring a Moroccan man for how the company\u2019s customers will react to him.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, over the week Moha spends with him, he immediately proves a hit with their oddball selection of clients, who themselves form a neatly sketched cross-section of Barcelona\u2019s population spanning all generations, occupations and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> classes. There\u2019s the psychoanalyst who ends up giving the bickering pair an informal free session. There are the mischievous twin girls who end up locking them for hours on a balcony. There\u2019s the elderly man anxious to share his longevity secrets. And there\u2019s the photographer who decides to use Moha as a model, showing off his slender physique (a bone of contention with Valero, who no longer fits into his suit and is embarking unconvincingly on a diet) in a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of ghastly portraits.<\/p>\n<p>Ball\u00fas\u2019 last film, the underseen \u201cStaff Only,\u201d also dealt with racism and cross-cultural incomprehension, only there it was the white family from Barcelona on holiday in Senegal who were the fish out of water. This time, that\u2019s technically Moha\u2019s lot, since despite being pretty much the textbook \u201cgood immigrant,\u201d he is, after all, on a trial period in a foreign country and anxious to prove himself. But \u201cThe Odd-Job Men,\u201d underneath a breezily comic tone established by Ren\u00e9-Marc Bini\u2019s playful score and carried through into DP Anna Molins\u2019 clean, cool-toned imagery, is perhaps even more acute in its deconstruction of Valero.<\/p>\n<p>Played with a completely believable hangdog anti-energy by Escolar (he and Mellali, both plumbers in real life, jointly won best actor in Locarno), this ordinary man, full of ordinary angst is an extraordinarily well-drawn snapshot of middle-aged malaise and how a certain type of man can turn dissatisfaction with himself \u2014 his aging body, his dwindling social status \u2014 out onto a world that just keeps changing without him wanting it to. If he\u2019s not careful, this pre-emptive defense posture might calcify into a much more rigid set of intolerances than the kind he now displays. On the other hand, perhaps prolonged exposure to a calming, optimistic presence like Moha\u2019s might pull him in the other direction: Ball\u00fas warm-hearted movie is too wise to suggest anything as glib as that these two handymen are going to end up fixing one another, but it does at least proffer the hope that they can sort out a temporary patch that should hold until the proper work can be done.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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