The clumsy, drunken lunge and uninvited cheek-kiss that precipitates the action in wildly uneven French-Canadian comedy “Babysitter” is oddly appropriate for a film that can also feel l…
’s second feature is basically a series of sketches, some of which comment on ingrained, unconscious misogyny, while others lampoon the culture of hypersensitivity around less severe examples of unexamined sexism, such as that forced kiss. This makes it apt, too, that “Babysitter” has such a sugary aesthetic: It often looks like the cake it wants both to have and to eat.
A bevy of beverages and a win for the local favorite later, Cédric is on the street celebrating when he recognises the TV news reporter covering the fight. While she’s still live on air, despite her visibly and vocally recoiling, he delivers the fateful, sloppy smackeroo. Cédric’s exhausted wife Nadine sees the immediately uploaded clip as she’s scrolling through pictures of Instagram beach bodies while breastfeeding their baby Léa.
Enter Amy , the babysitter of the title, who appears as if by some Mary Poppins magic and promptly bonds with the squalling infant. Unlike Ms. Poppins however, the preternaturally amenable Amy is a sex fantasy made flesh: a young, blonde, buxom beauty to whose coquettish, freely offered charms Cédric is apparently oblivious, though both Jean-Michel and Nadine are entranced by her.
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