A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless man, Boudu, from the waters of a canal who was trying to drown himself. Heroic to his detriment, he brings him home, for a few hours only... The incongruous arrival of Boudu will act like a mad dog in the game of skittles that is Christian's life...
Acting
Depardieu's full-commitment feral energy against Frot's exquisite suffering
Production
Aix-en-Provence locations that make debt look almost aspirational
Writing
Sharp updates to Renoir's class satire for the gallery-owning set
Director
Gérard Jugnot
Gérard Depardieu
Boudu
Catherine Frot
Yseult Lespinglet
Gérard Jugnot
Christian Lespinglet
Constance Dollé
Coralie
Jean-Paul Rouve
Hubert
Serge Riaboukine
Géronimo
Hubert Saint-Macary
Bob
Bonnafet Tarbouriech
Perez
Jean-Pierre Foucault
Self
Frédéric Restagno
Le premier pompier
Marc Pistolesi
Le second pompier
Agnès Regolo
La mère de Coralie
Didier Lafaye
Le père de Coralie
Philippe du Janerand
L'amateur à la galerie d'art
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Renoir's 1932 original starred Michel Simon and helped define 'poetic realism'—this remake swaps 1930s Parisian anarchism for 2000s Provencal property anxiety.
Gérard Jugnot directs himself as the flustered cuckold while casting his actual contemporary Depardieu as the uncontainable id—casting that doubles as commentary on their respective French cinema personas.
FR
