Pur week-end (2007) - film review

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...

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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