Boudu
Synopsis
It’s a spring night in Aix-en-Provence. Christian Lespinglet, a gallery operator deeply in debt, fishes Boudu, a homeless person, out of the canal where he is trying to drown himself. He unwillingly takes Boudu home, with the intention of looking after him for a few hours.
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The unexpected arrival of Boudu is like a crazy dog in the game of ninepins that is Christian’s life. Caught between his wife Yseult, suffering from depression and taking too many pills to get over it, and an art gallery on the edge of bankruptcy, Christian is a yuppie choking under the strain.
He chases after his lost charm by desperately trying to seduce Coralie, his assistant. He chases after success by trying to get Hubert, a local artist suffering a creative crisis, to paint. The Boudu whirlwind, whose temporary stay becomes permanent, sweeps away the shaky house of cards the couple has built. Unbearable, rude, naïve, selfish, this amateur poet settles in, sowing discord and further destabilizing Christian and Yseult, and Coralie and Hubert, all of whom are already assailed by doubts. But his presence also reveals aspects of the four that they never would have expected.
Boudu cures depression, artists’ block and is even comes in quite handy useful as a surrogate child.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (21)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Novo Arturo Films, GMT Productions
- Co-productions : Pathé Production, TF1 Films Production, DD Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Films
- News agency (France) : Moteur !
Full credits (23)
- Executive Producers : Jean-Pierre Guérin, Véronique Marchat
- Adaptation : Philippe Lopes Curval
- Screenwriter : Philippe Lopes Curval
- Director of Photography : Gérard Simon
- Assistant directors : Hervé Ruet, Daniel Dittmann, Marie Fischer
- Editor : Catherine Kelber
- Sound Recordist : Michel Kharat
- Costume designer : Martine Rapin
- Author of original work : René Fauchois
- Co-producer : Gérard Jugnot
- Sound Assistant : Benoît Gargonne
- Assistant Operators : Vincent Buron, Gregori Gajero
- Camera Operator : Dominique De Wever
- Production Manager : Claude Parnet
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, Laurent Renard
- Sound Editor : Jean Gargonne
- Assistant editors : Antoine Battistelli, Mélanie Mourey
- Production Assistant : Julia Minguet
- Continuity supervisor : Françoise Thouvenot
- Production Designer : Jean-Louis Poveda
- Casting : Françoise Menidrey
- Sound Mixer : Claude Villand
- Still Photographer : Arnaud Borrel
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 2004
- French release : 09/03/2005
- Runtime : 1 h 44 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 110.324
- Visa issue date : 04/02/2005
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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