Charlotte ( Marie-Lorna Vaconsin) on a trip to the beach, but it will take most of the film before the four wayfarers, accompanied by Charlotte’s whiny-boy brother ( Thomas Schmitt), actually make it there. What follows is an array of burlesque jokes and absurdist situations, as a forlorn romantic, Hector ( Gregoire Tachnakian), narrates a love story-cum-road movie about his troubled pursuit of Truquette (the sprightly Vimala Pons, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet) – the “girl” of the original title who he meets while working as a guard at the Louvre.Īlong with his cigar-puffing, binge-drinking bud, Pator (the hilariously understated Vincent Macaigne) Hector invites Truquette and her g.f. PHOTOS: Carlton Hotel: Where it All Happened in Cannesįrom the opening credits, where footage of the annual July 14 th military parade is sped up to look like a Mack Sennet two-reeler, with a title card poking fun at current Gallic film financing (it reads: “Supported by the most beautiful regions of France”) the director sets his work far apart from your typically chatty homegrown affair. Similar in some ways to Sophie Letourneur’s sophomore feature Les Coquillettes – whose co-star Carole Le Page is credited as co-editor here – and her earlier La Vie au ranch (both of which were produced by Ecce), there’s a welcome DIY approach to Peretjatko’s filmmaking that recalls the late 50s/early 60s movies of the Nouvelle Vague, combining off-the-cuff location shooting, post-sync sound and a crop of unknown actors whose performances feel both fresh and real.

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