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Mariscos Beach
(Crustacés & coquillages / Cote D'Azur)
Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau / France
2005 / 90 min / DVD
With: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Béatrix),
Gilbert Melki (Marc), Jean-Marc Barr (Didier), Jacques Bonnaffé
(Mathieu), Edouard Collin (Martin), Romain Torres (Charly)
Turku: Sat Nov 19 at 21.00 / Kino Thalia, sali 1
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Helsinki: Sat Nov 26 at 18.00 / Andorra
Love who you want
If the Finnish autumn is bringing you down, then this French comedy is
sure to pick you right up. Stick-in-the-mud dad Marc (Gilbert
Melki) and
pot-smoking free-spirit mom Béatrix (François Ozon's new
star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) are spending their summer vacation by the
sea with their two teenaged children. The summer in Mariscos Beach is hot
and so are the feelings between the family members. While daughter Laura
(Sabrina Seyvecou) leaves with her motorcycle-riding boyfriend, son Charly's
(Romain Torres) gay friend Martin (Edouard Collin) joins the family.
Marc comes to the conclusion that the two boys are having an affair. Mom
couldn't care less, because she's too busy trying to hide her own lover.
The arrival of a plumber worries dad: the über-masculine Didier (Luc
Besson's and Lars von Trier's favourite actor Jean-Marc
Barr) turns Marc's
attempts to keep the family roles intact upside down.
From Olivier Ducastel, the director of Ma
vraie vie à Rouen (My
Life on Ice, 2002) and Drôle de Félix (Funny
Felix, 2000),
this summer movie defies expectations. The best part is nonetheless the
warm take on life and of course a happy ending, where everyone gets each
other.
+ Far West
Pascal-Alex Vincent / France 2003
/ 19 min / DVD
When Ricky, who is customed to the vivid gay scene in Paris, has
to visit his grand père in the country, he thinks he's
going to die of boredom. Quicky adjusting to the rural
slowness, Ricky finds grandpa's handsome handyman to be quite
a catch. But then Ricky's butterflylike friends Mika and Koko
make an unepected entrance, and the quest for handyman's heart
is taken to a whole new level.
NOTE!
English subtitles.
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www.crustaces-lefilm.com
Text by
Sari Miettinen
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