Mammuth
A retiree battles to obtain his rightfully due pension.
A retiree battles to obtain his rightfully due pension.
Comedy
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2010
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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...
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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
92 min
Release date:
21 Apr 2010
Country:
FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$3,000,000
Revenue:
$7,100,000
Awards:
1 win & 8 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
"Mammuth" has the distressed, gritty look of a 1970s movie. (It was shot on Super 16 reversal film.) But it takes its cues from some of the less-appealing aspects of that era's freewheeling style, in particular a sort of curdled whimsy.
– Rachel Saltz,
New York Times,
29 Sep 2011
rotten:
Too limp and scattershot to warrant anything stronger than indifference...
– Melissa Anderson,
Village Voice,
27 Sep 2011
fresh:
Depardieu makes the most of it. Because of him, such surreal Gallic scuzziness has rarely seemed so sweetly tender.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
27 Sep 2011
fresh:
The gauche humour of 'Mammuth' camouflages a sweet torch song to the struggles of the working class in the face of private- and public-sector indifference.
– David Jenkins,
Time Out,
1 Jun 2011