Pur week-end (2007)
Directed by Olivier Doran

Film 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.

Film Synopsis

As they do every Easter for longer than they care to remember, seven close friends meet up in Lyon before setting off on their arduous annual ramble.  Their objective: to reach the summit of Mount Iseran in the French Alps.  Unfortunately, this year things are somewhat different, because, unbeknown to his fellow hikers, one of the seven, David, has just absconded from prison.  Unaware that a massive police hunt is under way to locate the errant convict, the party begins its mountain climb without the slightest inkling of the dramas that lie in store...