Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
Acting
Depardieu at his most vulnerable, a walrus in crisis.
Cinematography
Bleached, beautiful decay of rural France.
Writing
Delépine/Kervern's patented sad-funny alchemy.
Director
Gustave Kervern
Gérard Depardieu
Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
Yolande Moreau
Catherine Pilardosse
Isabelle Adjani
L'amour perdu de Serge
Benoît Poelvoorde
Le récupérateur de métal
Philippe Nahon
Le directeur gâteux de l'hospice
Bouli Lanners
Le recruteur
Anna Mouglalis
La fausse handicapée
Siné
Le viticulteur
Gustave Kervern
Le boucher au supermarché
Bruno Lochet
Le VRP au restaurant
Catherine Hosmalin
La copine de Catherine
Dick Annegarn
Le gardien du cimetière
Albert Delpy
Pierre
Blutch
L'employé de la caisse de retraite
Miss Ming
Solange, dite Miss Ming
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Title comes from Serge's mispronunciation of 'Mammut'—the film's entire poetics in one slurred word.
Part of the 'burlesque sociale' movement: French directors using grotesque comedy to gut-punch class inequality.
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