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• Hal M

  
  Manuel Poirier wrote and directed this film. It won several film festival accolades. Alas, the premiss makes it sound better than it is, since it's not tightly directed or well cast. The plot: Paco, a traveling salesman in France, has his company car swiped by a vagabond named… More
  Manuel Poirier wrote and directed this film. It won several film festival accolades. Alas, the premiss makes it sound better than it is, since it's not tightly directed or well cast. The plot: Paco, a traveling salesman in France, has his company car swiped by a vagabond named Nino. This leaves Paco (fired for this) in a small French city where he manages to quickly hook up with a Frenchwoman. True love? Maybe. But she requires a cooling off period. Paco must leave for three weeks, and have no contact with her. At the end of that period, if they still want each other, they resume the romance. Just then Paco encounters the thief/vagabond Nino (but doesn't recover the car). Surprisingly enough, Paco decides to spend the three week cooling off period with this Nino, on the road. Nino is an ill-dressed immigrant from Russia, slight, unattractive, and capable of being quite unpleasant. The two then pass from one small French town to the next (lots of attractive rural footage), encountering local girls who are astonishingly easy to bed. Paco (the one who's supposedly in love with whatsername back in that first town) is quite the babe magnet. Nino does better than he deserves but not as well as Paco. This leads to friction. There's the set-up. We're supposed to be wondering whether Paco returns to his gal but the screenplay loses focus on that original issue so don't expect any satisfying resolution there. Other opinions: Actor Sergi Lopez just isn't hunky enough for his character; and something needs to be done to make Sacha Bourdo's character Nino more truly laughable.