Gustave Kervern

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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 »

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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 »