L'outremangeur (2003)

Director:

Thierry Binisti

Writers:

Tonino Benacquista (comic book)
Tonino Benacquista (screenplay)

Release Date:

16 July 2003 (France)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

An obese Police Inspector traumatized by a childhood incident falls in love with a murder suspect. |

Plot Keywords:

Police | Murder | Marseille | Food | Based On Comic

Cast

Eric Cantona	...	Le commissaire Séléna
Rachida Brakni	...	Elsa
Caroline Sihol	...	Anne Lachaume (as Caroline Silhol)
Richard Bohringer	...	Émile Lachaume
Jocelyn Quivrin	...	Marc Brisset
Jean-Michel Noirey	...	Benoît Collet
Hubert Saint-Macary	...	Le juge Salabert
Valérie Messas	...	Clara Gauthier
Lucien Jean-Baptiste	...	Le légiste
Richard Guedj	...	Le médecin de l'hôpital
Eric Averlant	...	L'homme obèse
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Emmanuel Barilley	...	Richard Séléns
Armand Binisti
Jean-Luc Bosso
Mikaël Chiche	...	Policier du prétoire
Jacques-Henri Delcamp	...	Président du tribunal
Anne Deleuze	...	Psychothérapeute
Marc De Negri
Jean-Jérôme Esposito	...	Preneur d'otages 1
Lucas Etiévant
Kim Evin
Alain Flick
Edmonde Franchi	...	Femme obèse
Alysse Hallali	...	Gabrielle
Christophe Henon	...	Preneur d'otages 2
Lucas Michalski
Florent Mismetti	...	Preneur d'otages 3
Alexis Sikorsky

Also Known As:

The Over-Eater (International: English title)

Runtime:

France:90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud)

Company:

Film Par Film

Quotes:

Elsa: Being looked at is not a right, you have to deserve it.

A heart wrenching tale.

I managed, like the review above, to stumble upon this movie by accident. Basically it was on after another movie I was watching..

Now to the movie.

I can see people will either love or hate this movie, depending on your own experiences and loves. Its basically about a incredibly obese police officer coming to terms with his own mortality (he is given a year to live at the start of the movie). It has other bits and pieces in the plot (love, mystery etc), but these are not the central ideal of the movie.

I found myself crying in many parts of this movie, for myself being fat (and have been my entire life... of course not to the degree of the main actor, but to a degree which has caused bullying my entire life) this story hits very close to home. And some of the subtle emotional behind the scene's stuff here definitely adds to the mood.

Anyone who has had any sort of eating disorder (over or under eating whatever) will recognise things in this movie, and will more then likely be in tears by the first 30 minutes of the movie.

I hope this has been helpful.