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Mammuth

3

Gérard Depardieu heads out on a surreal roadtrip across France...

Mammuth review

Belgian filmmakers Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern return with an often surreal road movie, which blends social commentary with deadpan humour.

Serge Pilardosse (an outsized Gérard Depardieu), a retired slaughterhouse worker, heads out on his motorbike to track down non-paying former employers.

It’s a vividly shot tale of bizarre encounters, in which our hero is haunted by a ghost (Isabelle Adjani) and inspired by his oddball niece (Miss Ming).

There aren’t as many belly laughs as in the directors’ Louise-Michel but Depardieu brings a touching vulnerability to Serge.

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    • Toursiveu

      May 30th 2011, 19:34

      I don't know why everybody makes that mistake, also present in

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    • Toursiveu

      May 30th 2011, 19:37

      I don't know why everybody makes that mistake, also present in a recent review of the duo's previous film Louise Michel... You're not the only film magazin to say that Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern are belgian filmmakers. They're not. They're french! Granted their movies have a very surreal / absurd tone usually found in Belgium, granted also that their movies are belgo-french productions... But the two filmmakers are French and have been animators on French television for about fifteen years...

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    • Toursiveu

      May 30th 2011, 19:38

      I don't know why everybody makes that mistake, also present in a recent review of the duo's previous film Louise Michel... You're not the only film magazin to say that Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern are belgian filmmakers. They're not. They're french! Granted their movies have a very surreal / absurd tone usually found in Belgium, granted also that their movies are belgo-french productions... But the two filmmakers are French and have been animators on French television for about fifteen years...

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