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Director: Manuel Poirier
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From Time Out Film Guide
This amiable road movie follows two misfits - Catalan shoe salesman Paco and vertically challenged Russian-Italian Nino who meet under inauspicious circumstances - as they travel with no particular purpose through Brittany, the former giving himself and his new love a little space to consider their future, the latter in search of his own inamorata. Nothing extraordinary happens, the highlights of their journey being a drunken dinner with a barmaid and her cousin, and a survey conducted about the ideal man, but it's often funny and touching, mainly because the focus is on the credible, charming but never sentimentalised characters. Modest, but immensely engaging.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Manuel Poirier
Producer: Maurice Bernart, Michael Saint-Jean
Cast: Sergi Lopez, Sacha Bourdo, Elisabeth Vitali, Marie Matheron, Basile Siekoua full cast
Duration: 134 mins
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