It's Easier for a Camel...

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It's Easier for a Camel...
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Directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Written byValeria Bruni Tedeschi
Noémie Lvovsky
Agnès de Sacy
Produced by Paulo Branco
Maurizio Antonini
Mimmo Calopresti
StarringValeria Bruni Tedeschi
Cinematography Jeanne Lapoirie
Edited byAnne Weil
Distributed byGemini Films
Release date
  • 16 April 2003 (2003-04-16)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$2.1 million
Box office$3.2 million [1]

It's Easier for a Camel... (French : Il est plus facile pour un chameau...) is a 2003 French comedy film written, directed by and starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival [2] and was screened in competition at the 1st World Film Festival of Bangkok. It won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2003.

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Tedeschi won prizes for Emerging Narrative Filmmaker and Best Actress at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival. [3]

Film historian Tim Palmer described the film an engaging example of contemporary French pop-art cinema, referring to directors who wittily merge the features of intellectual/arthouse cinema with mass/popular cinema, and put director Tedeschi in the company of filmmakers such as François Ozon, Maîwenn le Besco, Sophie Fillières and Serge Bozon. [4]

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Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 46% of 13 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.3/10. [5] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 53 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [6]

References

  1. "Il est plus facile pour un chameau (2003) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "25th Moscow International Film Festival (2003)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  3. Amdur, Meredith (12 May 2003). "'Blind Shaft' tops at Tribeca Fest". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  4. Palmer, Tim (2011). Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton CT. ISBN   0-8195-6827-9.
  5. "It's Easier for a Camel...". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved 30 August 2025. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  6. "It's Easier for a Camel...". Metacritic . Fandom, Inc. Retrieved 22 November 2025.