Mammuth

French comedy-drama starring Gérard Depardieu as a bored, one-job, one-town kind of guy who after finally retiring at age 60, pulls out his old motorbike for a roadtrip.

"Laid off from the slaughterhouse at 60, Serge Pilardos (Gérard Depardieu) discovers that to pick up his pension he needs to furnish evidence that he’s been paying taxes. Wife Catherine (Yolande Moreau) bids him to mount his 70s Mammuth motorcycle, hit the road and track down the myriad former employers who never had the big sucker on their books in the first place. The stupendously elephantine, long-haired Depardieu never milks the pathos: there’s a guileless gravity about his deep stupidity that’s insanely touching. The wonderful Moreau complements Depardieu wickedly well as his baleful better half and sharp-eyed champion... There’s a raucous cast of ratbags and nutcases along the road too." (New Zealand International Film Festival 2010)

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