Summary
Margot and Michel are a married couple who feel they have a mission to
show the world that theirs is the perfect happy family. They do
this by documenting every aspect of their lives with a camcorder and
uploading their homemade videos onto their website. Their site
attracts transsexual Nicole and her partner Khaled, who soon find a way
of disrupting Margot and Michel’s idea of Utopia. Meanwhile, the
couple’s teenage daughter Nat plays games on the internet with a
seriously ill boy in a hospital and flirts on-line with an older
man. Welcome to the age of the information highway.
Review
Delphine Kreuter’s debut feature offers a tongue-in-cheek but very
timely reflection on the extent to which the internet has penetrated
our lives. Who needs Big Brother when everyone is so keen to
upload every last facet of their lives onto the Web for anyone on the
planet to assimilate? Shot on low resolution digitial video by
someone with a very shaky hand, 57000
km entre nous has a rough and ready feel that makes it look as
if it was knocked up on a home PC by a teenager for a school project -
this is what makes it so distinctive and also so frustratingly
difficult to engage with.
The rare moments of insight and laugh-out-loud humour are somewhat lost in the impenetrable snowstorm of dross that makes up most of the runtime. God alone knows how Mathieu Amalric ended up in this one; maybe the part of a middle-aged man giving piggyback rides to a sexually precocious teenager was too good to turn down? Is this art or just someone having a lark? With a little more discipline and a little less structureless whimsy this could have been something quite stunning. As it is, the film (if you can call it that) is little more than a quirky divertissement which may prove to be even more ephemeral than the phenomenon it depicts.
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The rare moments of insight and laugh-out-loud humour are somewhat lost in the impenetrable snowstorm of dross that makes up most of the runtime. God alone knows how Mathieu Amalric ended up in this one; maybe the part of a middle-aged man giving piggyback rides to a sexually precocious teenager was too good to turn down? Is this art or just someone having a lark? With a little more discipline and a little less structureless whimsy this could have been something quite stunning. As it is, the film (if you can call it that) is little more than a quirky divertissement which may prove to be even more ephemeral than the phenomenon it depicts.
© filmsdefrance.com 2010
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Credits
- Director: Delphine Kreuter
- Script: Emmanuel Finkiel, Delphine Kreuter, Mathieu Lis
- Cast: Florence Thomassin (Margot), Pascal Bongard (Michel), Mathieu Amalric (Simon), Marie Burgun (Nat), Hadrien Bouvier (Adrien), Stéphanie Michelini (Nicole), Mohamed Rouabhi (Khaled), Véra Briole (Solange), Chloé Mons (Loren), Julie Land (Mamie), Emmanuel Finkiel (Thomas), Eve Bitoun (La femme de ménage), Jacob Lyon (L’ami d’Adrien), Darla Dienstag (La petite fille)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 82 min
- Aka: 57,000 Kilometers Between Us
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