Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the program is canceled, Rivetot delays telling Mortez as long as possible...
Acting
Rochefort's hollow charm masking abyss; Jugnot's devotion breaking your heart.
Direction
Leconte finds poetry in motel rooms and highway loneliness.
Director
Patrice Leconte
Jean Rochefort
Michel Mortez
Gérard Jugnot
Rivetot
Sylvie Granotier
La libraire
Julie Jézéquel
La serveuse Hôtel de la Gare
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Le conseiller
Marie Pillet
La patronne de l'hôtel du commerce
Albert Delpy
Le conducteur chien rouge
Gabriel Gobin
Le vieux barman
Pierre-François Dumeniaud
Le patron Hôtel du Commerce
Ged Marlon
Gora, le pique-niqueur
Eric Bérenger
Le journaliste
Philippe Dormoy
Un reporter
Maryline Even
La serveuse Hôtel des Grands Hommes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rochefort and Jugnot were already French cinema royalty; this was their first collaboration, sparked by Leconte's obsession with their contrasting energies.
The film eerily predicted the death of analog broadcasting culture—watch it now as a time capsule of pre-internet fame, when being 'known' meant something geographically specific and fragile.
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