Synopsis
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
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Cast
- Gérard DepardieuSerge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
- Yolande MoreauCatherine Pilardosse
- Isabelle AdjaniL'amour perdu de Serge
- Benoît PoelvoordeLe récupérateur de métal
- Philippe NahonLe directeur gâteux de l'hospice
- Bouli LannersLe recruteur
- Anna MouglalisLa fausse handicapée
- SinéLe viticulteur
- Gustave KervernLe boucher au supermarché
- Bruno LochetLe VRP au restaurant
Recommendations
- 80
Time Out
They've given their star one rotten peach of a role, and Depardieu makes the most of it. Because of him, such surreal Gallic scuzziness has rarely seemed so sweetly tender. - 60
Empire
A quirky road-trip movie with things to say. A return to form for Depardieu too. - 40
The New York Times
A wearisome mix of miserableness and dark humor. - 40
Village Voice
Too limp and scattershot to warrant anything stronger than indifference. - 38
Slant Magazine
The movie's deathblow is the casting of poet-artist Miss Ming as Mammuth's affectless niece, whose twee verse and sculpture make Miranda July seem like a bearer of gravitas.
