Casque bleu (1994)

Director:

Gérard Jugnot

Writers:

Christian Biegalski, Gérard Jugnot,

Stars:

Gérard Jugnot, Victoria Abril, Valérie Lemercier

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gérard Jugnot	...	Patrick
Victoria Abril	...	Alicia
Valérie Lemercier	...	Laurette
Jean-Pierre Cassel	...	Nicolas
Micheline Presle	...	Gisèle
Claude Piéplu	...	Pierre
Jean-Noël Brouté	...	Daniel
Roland Marchisio	...	Freddy
Hubert Saint-Macary	...	Gianni
Chus Lampreave	...	Alicia's Mother
Marian Apaolaza	...	Madame Momo
Zoon Besse	...	Guerilla #1 (as Joël Besse)
Jean-François Chaintron	...	Limousine Chauffeur
Isabelle Courger	...	Airline Agent
Jo Doumerg	...	Vineyard Attendant

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

written and directed by cast member | color in title

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Genres:

Comedy

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

15 June 1994 (France)

Also Known As:

Blue Helmet

Filming Locations:

Comino, Malta

Company Credits

Production Co:

CiBy 2000, Novo Arturo Films, TF1 Films Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

User Reviews

New ground for comedy

After his successful `Une époque formidable', a comedy about homeless people, Gérard Jugnot came back with another, even more ambitious, comedy, about the Balkanic wars (though the place is left unnamed). A group of French tourists, vacationing in a Mediterranean island, is caught in the middle of a war they didn't even know about. In a few hours, they learn to set aside their former troubles (pending divorce, loneliness, ageing) so that they can cope with important matters, like avoiding to get killed or fishing corpses in a swimming pool. While the movie is not entirely satisfying (every character learns the usual lesson about what's really important in life, and the war they're in is too theoretical to be convincing), it explores a few new themes, like our (Western Europeans) ambiguous feelings about the Yugoslavian tragedies (and foreign tragedies in general), or the idea that we (Western Europeans) tend to live in a bubble that's bound to explode. Jugnot has certainly to be credited for taking comedy out of its usual tracks.