"Mammuth" has the distressed, gritty look of a 1970s movie. (It was shot on Super 16 reversal film.) But it takes its cues from some of the less-appealing aspects of that era's freewheeling style, in particular a sort of curdled whimsy.
Mammuth
A retiree battles to obtain his rightfully due pension.
2010 · 1h 32m · N/A
Comedy
Directed by
Gustave Kervern
,
Benoît Delépine
Overview
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
Director and cast
- Gustave Kervern Director
- Benoît Delépine Director
- Gérard Depardieu as Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
- Yolande Moreau as Catherine Pilardosse
- Isabelle Adjani as L'amour perdu de Serge
- Benoît Poelvoorde as Le récupérateur de métal
- Philippe Nahon as Le directeur gâteux de l'hospice
- Bouli Lanners as Le recruteur
- Anna Mouglalis as La fausse handicapée
- Siné as Le viticulteur
- Gustave Kervern as Le boucher au supermarché
- Bruno Lochet as Le VRP au restaurant
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Too limp and scattershot to warrant anything stronger than indifference...
Depardieu makes the most of it. Because of him, such surreal Gallic scuzziness has rarely seemed so sweetly tender.
The gauche humour of 'Mammuth' camouflages a sweet torch song to the struggles of the working class in the face of private- and public-sector indifference.
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