Two men who don’t know each other take the road together in a hearse in Lausanne bound for the south of France. They don’t seem to have anything in common, or so they think…
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Bernard CampanRemember beautiful things, The three brothers) and Alexandre Jollien wanted to honor their friendship through this fictional story, inspired by the special bond that unites them. The result is an eminently sincere film, which operates on the basis of this feeling, without however really distinguishing itself on a cinematic level.
In all humility, the two friends, who co-wrote the screenplay (Hélène Grémillon also participated in the writing) and the production of this feature film, devote themselves to road movie initiatory by orchestrating the improbable meeting between two individuals “that everything opposes”. The former member of the group Les Inconnus thus slips into the skin of Louis, a funeral director, a 58-year-old hardened bachelor, who, because of an accident which could have had very unfortunate consequences, sees entering his life Igor, a 40-year-old man delivering organic vegetables on his tricycle. In his very first role, Alexandre Jollien, writer and philosopher in life, reveals a beautiful screen presence.
The originality of the meeting lies in the fact that, like the person who interprets him, Igor has a cerebral handicap which affects his motor skills and spends most of his time in philosophy books. When Igor accompanies Louis in his hearse when the latter has to drive a body hundreds of kilometers away, the story is then based on the incongruous situations along their route, but above all on learning to live together.
We salute the humorous approach taken by the two acolytes, as much as this manifest desire to avoid any excess of sentimentality, even if this does not prevent the demonstration from being sometimes a little supported.
Indoors
Drama
Almost
Bernard Campan
With Bernard Campan, Alexandre Jollien and Tiphaine Daviot
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