This comedy is about a Métro worker, Jules, who penned seventeen unanswered letters to France's Minister of Transportation protesting being fired. When he learns that the Minister is to appear in person at the Lyons station to dedicate a new rail line, Jules is there hoping to speak with him in person; he carries a concealed gun and when he is unable to speak to the Minister, the normally mild Jules snaps and takes an entire train car hostage
Acting
François Cluzet's simmering everyman rage is chef's kiss.
Writing
Tight 88-minute hostage farce that never lets you breathe.
Director
Stéphane Clavier
François Cluzet
Jules
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
Jeanne
Emma de Caunes
Nadia
Éric Caravaca
Robert
Jean-Paul Muel
Frédéric Deles
Brigitte Chamarande
Lucie
Annie Grégorio
Mathilde
Raphaëline Goupilleau
Diane
Valérie Bonneton
Brigitte
Édouard Montoute
Yves
Wilfred Benaïche
Bruno
Michel Muller
Le chef de gare
Anne Kreis
La femme de Deles
François Levantal
Xavier
Zinedine Soualem
Karim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This satirizes France's legendary bureaucratic maze, where citizens famously write angry letters to ministers as a national pastime. Cluzet made it his specialty playing ordinary men pushed to extremes.
Director Stéphane Clavier is the brother of famed comedian Christian Clavier (Les Visiteurs), proving French comedy dynasties run deep.
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