A lovesick sailor, a TV station explosion, and the worst case of wrong-place-wrong-time in French cinema history.
A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Unfortunately, while his aim is true, his timing is off. His first stop is the broadcast headquarters of a major television network. He arrives shortly before the place blasted apart by a bomb. Later, he goes to the apartment of a noted talk-show host in hopes of receiving air-time during which he will plead for information concerning his lost love. But things don't come out as planned for somehow, the sailor ends up considered the prime suspect in the bombing while the real-life terrorist and his cohort, who happen to be in the same apartment building in hopes of knocking off a crooked judge.
Acting
Sagamore Stévenin's wide-eyed desperation carries the absurdity.
Direction
Courrège juggles multiple mistaken identities with genuine momentum.
Director
Pierre Courrège
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of only three feature films directed by Pierre Courrège, who spent most of his career in French television commercials.
The 1997 release positioned it awkwardly between the decline of classic French farce and the rise of more cynical post-Tarantino crime-comedy—a tonal limbo that explains its obscurity.
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