Benoît Delépine

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Paul is a 50-something call centre employee who has had enough of hismiserable non-existence.  Married, with children, he lives acrumby life which consists of just one crass, life-sapping mundanityafter another.  One Friday the 13th he watches a televisionprogramme which gives him just the spur he needs to get him out of thegroove he has been trapped in all these years.  He mounts hisracing bike and hastens away from the suburbs, heading for themountains where he will kill himself.  Unfortunately, suicide isnot nearly as straightforward as it seems…Read More »

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60 and is about to retire from his job in a slaughterhouse. He has always worked from the age of sixteen, never been on sick leave. So, how will this man fill his days? He does not like reading; doing odd jobs about the house is not his cup of tea; shopping is not his passion … To make matters worse, his wife Catherine, who still works in a supermarket, notices that her husband will not get full retirement benefits since some of his former employers failed to do the requisite paperwork. So off goes Serge, riding his old Munch “Mammut” bike, in search of the missing documents … (IMDb)Read More »

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Mr Vives is not fond of the lazy farmer’s hand who keeps blocking the road with his large harvester, so he gets back at him, and the farmer’s hand gets back at Mr Vives, and round and round it goes. Until one day, when this causes Mr Vives to lose his job and come back early to discover his wife in bed with another man. Furious, he drives up to the farm hand in the middle of a field and starts a fist fight which ends in the harvester. They wake up together at the hospital, both with useless legs. It seems they’re doomed to stay together from now on.Read More »

Le grand soir is a 2012 French drama film directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.
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