Summary
Seven lifelong friends embark once again on their
annual ramble to the summit of Mount Iseran in the French Alps. This year, however,
things do not go quite as planned... One of
the seven, David, is supposed to be on his way back to prison, having
promised that he would only be away for a few hours...
Review
Pur week-end begins as what
looks suspiciously like a feeble parody of Philippe Harel’s Les Randonneurs (1997) but soon
manages to lose its way in the mountains and ends up resembling a stray
sheep. Olivier Doran’s second feature manages to be even more
amateurish and structureless than his first, Le
Déménagement (1997), and with none of that
film’s rookie charm. With a few notable exceptions (Kad
Merard, François Berléand, Bruno Solo) the performances
are risible, although given the quality of the writing this is hardly
surprising. Think of any trite cliché involving mid-life
crisis, strained domestic relationships and police tactics, and you
will surely find it in this cobbled together heap of caricatured
nonsense. Some films are just too painful to watch, and this is
one of them.
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Credits
- Director: Olivier Doran
- Script: Alain Attal, Olivier Doran, Philippe Lefebvre
- Photo: Christophe Offenstein
- Cast: Kad Merad (Frédéric Alvaro), Bruno Solo (François), Valérie Benguigui (Véronique), Philippe Lefebvre (Alex), Jean-Noël Brouté (Sam), Anne Marivin (Sarah), Arnaud Henriet (David Watteau), François Berléand (Papan), Alexandra Mercouroff (Maugrion), Jean-Luc Bideau (M. Chappaz), Didier Sidbon (Bersini)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 90 min
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