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Memorable, crazy movie

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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.

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.

This movie is a road movie in the France of small people, done by an atypical guy on an atypical bike (would you figure that the antique Munch Mammuth that Gérard Depardieu is shown riding is priced around $100.000?)As Depardieu is making his trip to the places where he used to live and work, so that he can get the paperwork he needs to retire, we meet a number of comic situations, that often reveal the absurdity of our modern world (see the scene where Yolande Moreau fights against an automated voice phone service). Miss Ming character also gives us some nice touches of craziness.Besides the comic situations, there is a more serious tone. The movie shows us the rigidity of the retirement system, from which a number of people are excluded, as they are anyway excluded from the whole economical system. A few moments in the movie also make us feel how getting old can be a wrecking for these people.So there is both fun and sensibility there, and Gérard Depardieu is good at conveying both. This is his best role for a great while and it proves that he stills has something to give.

I really don't understand critics and other reviewers who even consider giving more than bomb status to such a mess.The script is awful, the dialogues are pitiful, the scenes are ludicrous, Depardieu is monstrous, and the film as a whole has no redeeming value whatsoever.The only thing that enticed us to see the movie was to watch how bloated, fat and disgusting Depardieu has become. However, the whole movie lacks any sense, interest, motivation, rhyme or reason.The script has no logical structure.While there are a couple of slightly humorous scenes, they do not justify spending 90 minutes of your time (not to speak your money).