Directed by:
Jean-Pierre SinapiCinematography:
Jean-Paul MeurisseCast:
Nadia Kaci, Olivier Gourmet, Lionel Abelanski, Saïd Taghmaoui, Chantal Neuwirth, Julien Boisselier, Nadine Marcovici, Jacques Bondoux, Gérald Thomassin (more)Plots(1)
A home for physically handicapped. And next to it, a highway. René is fifty and nearly finished. Bitter, aggressive, detested by patients and carers alike, the victim of a terminal wasting disease. His well-worn cynicism proves useless against the simple compassion of his young nurse, Julie. René confides in her his one desire: to make love before the disease destroys him. From the ranks of prostitutes who work the highway, she finds him a lover, and René is transformed. Little by little, his newly awakened spirit and humanity infect his fellow sufferers - including a wheelchair-racing punk and a gay Moslem Johnny Halliday fan desperate to convert to Catholicism - much to the horror of their hypocritical warders. Jean-Pierre Sinapi's visceral, anarchic black comedy confronts and overturns a final taboo: the right of the handicapped to sex, love and life. Shot through with riotous, uncompromising humour and difficult truths, it shows us that it is not the disabled who are truly crippled. (Wild Bunch Distribution)
(more)Cast
Nadia Kaci
Best movies:
Papicha (2019)
I Still Hide to Smoke (2016)
It All Starts Today (1999)
Olivier Gourmet
Belgium
Best movies:
Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy Number 1 (2008)
The Promise (1996)
Rosetta (1999)
Lionel Abelanski
France
Best movies:
Atonement (2007)
Train of Life (1998)
Cyrano, My Love (2018)
Saïd Taghmaoui
France
Best movies:
The Kite Runner (2007)
Hate (1995)
Mogadishu Welcome (2008) (TV movie)
Chantal Neuwirth
Best movies:
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
The Day of the Crows (2012)
Julien Boisselier
France
Best movies:
Mr & Mme Adelman (2017)
Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006)
Female Agents (2008)
Nadine Marcovici
Best movies:
The Traveller (2019) (series)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Mystère à la Sorbonne (2018) (TV movie)
Gérald Thomassin
France
Best movies:
Jacquou le croquant (2007)
A Private Affair (2002)
Satan (2006)
Manuela Gourary
Best movies:
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Taxi (1998)
Hansel & Gretel (2007)