Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.
Acting
Stévenin's dead-eyed grace in the most degrading moments
Direction
Bouchitey finds ugly-beautiful frames in trailer parks
Director
Patrick Bouchitey
Jean-François Stévenin
Simon
Patrick Bouchitey
Dédé
Jean-Pierre Bisson
Gérard
Laura Favali
Nadine
Roland Blanche
l'accoudé
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Félix, le patron du bistrot
Dominique Maurin
le vagabond
Bernard Crombey
le boucher
Patrick Fierry
Jean-Loup
Anne Macina
la femme de la voiture
Marie Mergey
Suzanne, la tante de Simon
Jackie Berroyer
le curé
Consuelo De Haviland
La blonde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Bouchitey also plays Dédé, essentially directing himself through a drunken haze.
Part of 1990s French 'cinéma du corps'—films obsessed with working-class bodies, sweat, and dysfunction. Think Claire Denis but meaner and drunker.
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