When he learns that his father has had a serious accident, Paolo leaves Canada with his son Sam to travel to Marseille, where he grew up. A complicated return, because he left his family there 25 years earlier following a incident that broke them apart. Paolo is reunited with his brother Joseph, with whom he tries to help their father, who has been locked in a silence and amnesia following the shock...

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Marseille can be nicely compared with Dany Boon’s Welcome to the Sticks, in which Kad Merad left southern France to go north, with its plethora of gags about stereotypes and accents. This time around it’s Quebec bumping up against Marseilles, with Paolo wearing a lumberjack shirt as if it were a bulletproof vest. Comparing the two is the only interesting aspect of this false comedy and bad melodrama with terrible lack of rhythm, warmth and skill. From the romance with Judith El Zein (co-writer together with Merad and Patrick Bosso) to the drama at the heart of the plot through to Paolo’s relationship with his father, Marseille gets it wrong. It offers no great laughs, just a few smiles and a lot of boredom.