Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Pascal Benezech | ... | Tried to Escape |
Dominique Pinon | ... | Louison | |
Marie-Laure Dougnac | ... | Julie Clapet | |
Jean-Claude Dreyfus | ... | Clapet | |
Karin Viard | ... | Mademoiselle Plusse | |
Ticky Holgado | ... | Marcel Tapioca | |
Anne-Marie Pisani | ... | Madame Tapioca | |
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Boban Janevski | ... | Young Rascal |
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Mikael Todde | ... | Young Rascal (as Mikaël Todde) |
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Edith Ker | ... | Grandmother |
Rufus | ... | Robert Kube | |
Jacques Mathou | ... | Roger | |
Howard Vernon | ... | Frog Man | |
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Chick Ortega | ... | Postman |
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Silvie Laguna | ... | Aurore Interligator |
Centered on a post-apocalyptic society where food is scarce and used as currency. In an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and is in need of a new maintenance man since the prior one "mysteriously" disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher's intent is to have him work for as little as possible. The clown and butcher's daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father's plans by contacting the "troglodytes", a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground. Written by anonymous
Clever ideas and good notion of filmmaking are at the core of this movie, whose storyline is the smallest asset. But you won't really care when you see it, because even though the story isn't really elaborate, what you have here is one of the most original movies you'll ever get your eyes on. The setting is perfect, with no historic or geographic references, only an estranged building, which doesn't have a single straight normal tenant. The result is a magnificent work of actors, cinematography and set dressing, that makes the most of visual resources for a movie. The directors Jeunet & Caro show their true potential in this movie that will keep you glued with its naive-like comedy style, and its unique set of characters, which could generate a separate movie about each and every one of them. Magnificent, and truly original.