Cinematography:
Hugues PoulainComposer:
Gaëtan RousselCast:
Gérard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau, Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Adjani, Bouli Lanners, Philippe Nahon, Anna Mouglalis, Albert Delpy, Gustave Kervern (more)Plots(1)
As he turns 60, a working-class man takes his retirement. Hard at work since the age of 16, he has never missed a day, never gone sick. When he tries to claim his well-deserved retirement pension, he runs into the implacable wall of bureaucracy. It turns out that several of his former employers have “forgotten” to declare his earnings. To receive full benefits, his only solution is to go back to them and gather the missing affadavits. Encouraged by his wife, our hero mounts his old motorcycle from the 70s, a Mammuth which gave him his nickname. He returns to the places of his youth, a journey that brings him back into company with former employers, friends, and long-lost family members. On the road, he comes to realize that people have always considered him an uncultivated imbecile. Submerged in doubt, haunted by ghostly appearances of Yasmine, his first love lost in a dramatic motorcycle accident, his quest to recuperate the missing papers, little by little, becomes futile. Salvation comes to him from his young niece, who awakens the happy poet that lies dormant inside him. Instead of aging slowly towards death, Mammuth decides to embrace life with a new beginning. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Gérard Depardieu
France
Best movies:
Jean de Florette (1986)
Two Men in Town (1973)
Shut Up! (2003)
Yolande Moreau
Belgium
Best movies:
Amelie (2001)
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
Germinal (1993)
Benoît Poelvoorde
Belgium
Best movies:
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Aaltra (2004)
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle (2001)
Isabelle Adjani
France
Best movies:
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
The Tenant (1976)
One Deadly Summer (1983)
Bouli Lanners
Belgium
Best movies:
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Toto the Hero (1991)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Philippe Nahon
France
Best movies:
Hate (1995)
Irreversible - The Straight Cut (2019)
I Stand Alone (1998)
Anna Mouglalis
France
Best movies:
Happening (2021)
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
Albert Delpy
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
Before Sunset (2004)
The Violent People (1970)
Gustave Kervern
France
Best movies:
Aaltra (2004)
150 Milligrams (2016)
And If We All Lived Together (2011)
Serge Larivière
Belgium
Best movies:
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Séraphine (2008)
One for the Road (2009)
Miss Ming
France
Best movies:
Louise-Michel (2008)
The Big Night (2012)
Courted (2015)
Bruno Lochet
France
Best movies:
The Three Brothers (1995)
Poetical Refugee (2000)
Superwho? (2022)
Siné
France
Best movies:
Louise-Michel (2008)
Mammuth (2010)
Noël Godin
Belgium
Best movies:
Grand Prix (1966)
Aaltra (2004)
The Big Night (2012)
Joseph Dahan
Best movies:
Aaltra (2004)
Louise-Michel (2008)
The Big Night (2012)
Rémy Roubakha
Best movies:
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
The Dinner Game (1998)
The Idol (2002)
Stéphanie Pillonca
Best movies:
The Big Night (2012)
Saint-Amour (2016)
Holidays by the Sea (2011)