“Some like him bald”: Kev Adams and Michaël Youn a hair’s breadth away from a skid… But very hilarious

Kev Adams and Michaël Youn tackle a painful subject for men in Camille Delamarre's "Some Like Him Bald": baldness. As expected, the duo opts for a big farce rather than a societal drama. The two actors, both blessed with lush manes of hair in real life, play character roles.

The first is Zacharie, a thirty-something who is deeply in love with his girlfriend, Romy, to the point of asking her to marry him. But the beauty refuses. The reason? She senses a disaster looming on her darling's head that she can't bear... Baldness, that is.

Now single and devastated, Zac goes to see a dermatologist (played by an over-the-top Chantal Ladesou ). She predicts the worst: in six months, the young man won't have a single hair left on his face. On his mother's advice, Zac gets back in touch with his uncle Joseph (Michaël Youn), who knows a lot about body hair.

After having known fame with his black fleece and his metal band called "les Mégaveuch" ("the mega-hairs", in verlan), Joseph saw a tonsure appear on his crown like "Chaussée aux Moines". He tried hair transplants in Turkey , Tunisia and Moldova, sprays of all kinds and even goose poop applications on his head. Joseph then begs Zac to join him in his "hair resistance". At the same time, the pretty Lison arrives in the life of the thirty-year-old and assures him that she loves him as he is...

The script for "Some Like Him Bald" seems a bit cobbled together, and the scenes sometimes jump abruptly from one to the next. But we have a lot of fun with these two disoriented men, whose self-confidence hangs by a few threads (on their heads). Michaël Youn totally overplays the role of the uncle with his lousy puns ("I am your parten'hair," "No comb no game"...) and puts on a show—and the bald man—with delightful energy.

As for Kev Adams, he is both touching when he confides in the discussion group "How to better live with your baldness" and hilarious, with his outrageous facial expressions and his ultra-effective sense of rhythm. We could have done without the slightly mawkish message about the need to accept ourselves as we are (perhaps those with thinning hair will appreciate it?), but the love story is charming and the actress Faustine Koziel (who plays Lison) is irresistible.

What we like best about this comedy are the scenes that are so close to going off the rails. The one where Joseph/Michaël Youn shaves Zac/Kev Adams's suddenly hairy buttocks. Or the one where Zac finds himself with a goat in a train toilet, half... naked.

By balancing the childish with the trashy, "Some Like It Bald" succeeds. The sequence where Joseph haggles in Hindi with an Indian supermarket owner over the price of "magic" pills is simply hilarious.