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Bookmark this pageWhat Makes David Run? (1982)
Director: Elie Chouraqui
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
David (Huster) - a frantic scriptwriter from an upwardly mobile Jewish family - struggles at both his relationship with his adoring but independent girlfriend, and with his latest movie project, a semi-comic, semi-autobiographical account of family life, the main scenes of which are shown as he dreams them up. The film's strengths and faults are similar to those in Fellini, to whose 82 and Amarcord there are clear resemblances. Family rituals are remembered with grotesque emphasis on their larger-than-life absurdity; history pokes its nervous nose in now and again; nostalgia is allowed free rein. Problems arise from the fact that the central character is such a self-obsessed, approval-seeking little shit that we never really care about his situation, even when the too-neatly muted moments of pain occur. Still, never taking itself too seriously, it is lively and amusing enough.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Elie Chouraqui
Producer: Xavier Gélin
Cast: Francis Huster, Nicole Garcia, Charles Aznavour, Magali Noël, Michel Jonasz, Nathalie Nell, Anouk Aimée, André Dussollier full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 99 mins
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