Son of Gascogne
Director: Pascal Aubier
Year Released: 1995
Rating: 2.0
A boney translator (Grégoire Colin) for a musical group from Moscow gets taken for the offspring of a famous New Wave director and is quickly initiated into the French Film World, which never seems to stop drinking. Dramatic tension in this one is nil, and the ultra-thin plot involving a lost film that the young man may or may not possess culminates in a glib joke, so the sole reason to watch this is the non-stop parade of French celebrities (sup Bulle, sup Chabrol) and impromptu 're-enactments' of scenes from French cinema's history (Godard's Breathless gets referenced, but Godard himself is nowhere to be found). There's reasonable chemistry between Colin and the Dinara Drukarova character (whose Broken French is translated into Broken English), but their 'relationship' is almost treated as an afterthought.
