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| Guillaume Canet | ... |
Gus
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Zabou Breitman | ... |
Paméla
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| Benoît Poelvoorde | ... |
Lenny Bar
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| Guillaume Gallienne | ... |
Samuel Pupkin
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| François Berléand | ... |
Guy Bennet
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| Jean-Pierre Cassel | ... |
Le père de Gus
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| Vincent Rottiers | ... |
Kevin
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Léa Drucker | ... |
La jumelle patineuse
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| Gilles Lellouche | ... |
Le jumeau patineur
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Jean-Noël Brouté | ... |
Le docteur 70's
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Lionel Abelanski | ... |
Le directeur du supermarché
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Philippe Lefebvre | ... |
Le prof de gym
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Laurent Lafitte | ... |
L'animateur du karaté-show
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| Mélanie Doutey | ... |
La fille "moitié des choses"
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| Anne Marivin | ... |
La femme aux objets
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Gus (played by Guillaume Canet) suffers from narcolepsy. He falls asleep all the time and has dreams about supermen from comics (Van Damme would play one of these supermen, a short & secret appearance).
Gustave Klopp does a lot of dreaming. Born with an incurable "design flaw" (narcolepsy), stress causes him to fall fast asleep. So, understandably, he sleeps through most of school, being a teenager, dating, marrying, numerous jobs and having a mortgage.
But his sickness finally provides meaning to his life when he starts turning his dreams (heavily influenced by his father's love of American action movies) into comic books. His therapy group of misfits love his stories, but his therapist, his wife and his best friend all have ulterior motives and Gustave has to wake up to reality, or lose everything.
The film is quirky, funny and populated with eccentric characters with big dreams and thwarted ambitions. A surreal comedy that is also poignant and cruel.