18 strangers, one bus, zero chemistry—then bandits strike and magic happens.
“Traveling is not just going places, but meeting people, remarks a character in Michèle Rosier's refreshing human comedy. 18 people board a tour bus to Mont-Saint-Michel, eager and jittery — cameras aimed, desires out of focus. The motley crew includes a maturing maid mad to marry, a discreet Irishman, a pompous bourgeois, and a mysterious lady in Renaissance attire who looks as though she's lost her castle.No matches made in heaven here; in fact, the characters seem bent on driving each other crazy before the tour's end.When the bus is attacked by highway thieves, and its occupants divested of jewels and money, the misadventure makes them accomplice ... a kind of spell is cast on these mere mortals, shaken from their moorings, who quit their banality and take off from the big bus into another space, outward bound.” — Joan Dupont
Writing
Rosier's wry observation of tourists performing their own lives.
Costume
That Renaissance mystery woman—costume as character, not quirk.
Director
Michèle Rosier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mont-Saint-Michel as pilgrimage site gets subverted here—Rosier treats it as purgatory where strangers must earn their transcendence through mutual annoyance.
Michèle Rosier started as fashion journalist and designer; her eye for how people costume their identities permeates every character's carefully constructed look.
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