Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

colin-657 Lets just concentrate on one small matter The knowingness of the filmmakers is apparent with there choice of bike. At the time Serge would have been a biker this would have been an aspiration for a European working man that was possible of fulfilment. In his comatose state the world moved on and his icon becomes a forgotten relic as many of the Mammuths did. Out of touch he would be unaware that the bike has now become a cult and consequently recently accrued great value. I have also had my Sidcup moments and in a sort of way also been redeemed by art so I understand that sector of the film, although perhaps in this film is slightly unbalances the structure And then Yolande Moreau can make shaving an armpits so moving that I cried.

richard-1787 Perhaps if you're a devoté of what used to be called art-house films this movie might not seem so different to you. Otherwise, it is likely to strike the average mover-goer accustomed to average movies as very strange indeed. Much if the dialogue is delivered in a very dead-pan style. Some of the cinematography, however, is really both very original and very beautiful. These are not introspective characters. They sometimes aggravate us because they don't think about their situation and are constantly astounded by what happens. This leaves them the victim of government bureaucracies that are simply too complicated for them to understand. You are unlikely to identify with these characters. Often you wonder whether to take them as mocking caricatures or sympathetic portraits. Still, the movie almost always held me, which is more than I can say for many more "normal" movies.

kosmasp If another user is right and the bike Depardieu is riding in this movie (a Mammuth) is worth a lot of money, you should start wondering what he is on about. But then again, I don't think it matters that much, because it is about a system and its flaws. And while it mixes funny situations with very serious matters, it does not get the combination of them both does not always work in favor of the movie.Still Depardieu tries hard and there are quite a few good scenes, with very good points. Like when Depardieus character tries to "communicate" with a service over a phone. The pacing seemed to be a problem too (all over the place). But then again, there are a lot of people who liked it as it is. It kind of reminded me of the movie "Broken Flowers". Though I think this one is (a little bit) better

writers_reign I came to this movie armed with no prior knowledge of the content, not even knowing that Isabelle Adjani was featured; the main selling point in my case was the great actress Yolande Moreau and I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that the writer-director team were also responsible for Louise-Michel, a vehicle for Moreau from 2008. It was, I found, referential, the central premise of Depardieu searching for documentary evidence of his work record harks back to Pinter's The Caretaker where the eponymous character refers more than once to 'my papers in Sidcuo' and the bizarre aspect of the film reminded one of Bertrand Blier's Buffet Froid which also featured Depardieu. Another fine actress, Anna Magloulis, turns in a fine cameo but Depardieu shoulders the lion's share of the weight as a man who has never taken a day off work in forty five years but unfortunately has spent those years in one dead-end job after another, some of them 'under the table' which is not much help in a bureaucracy when a pension is at stake. The main thrust of the film is a series of picaresque encounters some hit, some miss. Nice satire.