Grégoire Moulin against the rest of the world

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Movie
German title Grégoire Moulin against the rest of the world
Original title Grégoire Moulin contre l'humanité
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2001
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Arthur de Penguern
script Artus de Penguern,
Jérôme L'hotsky
production Cyril Colbeau-Justin ,
Jean-Baptiste Dupont ,
Yves Rolland
music Benoît Pimont
camera Vincent Mathias
cut Corinne Cahour ,
Claude-France Husson ,
Christophe Marthoud
occupation

Grégoire Moulin against the rest of the world (Original title: Grégoire Moulin contre l'humanité ) is a French film from 2001 . The black comedy was directed by Artus de Penguern , who also played the leading role and wrote the screenplay with Jérôme L'hotsky .

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Grégoire Moulin grew up with his uncle and grandmother. His parents died shortly after his birth during a dispute over their son's possible future career choice. His grandmother spends her everyday life killing flies because her husband swallowed a fly and suffocated.

After the death of his grandmother 25 years later, the shy Grégoire, who has never had a real relationship with a woman, takes the train to Paris to start a new job. He dreams that he cannot find his train ticket and that the conductors throw him out during the journey. He wakes up and shows the conductress his ticket excitedly.

He settles into his apartment and his job very quickly, but triggers astonished looks from his work colleagues when he reports that he is not interested in football. There will be a football game soon, which will decide the championship. In a café near his office, he falls in love with the ballet teacher Odile, who always sits alone in the same café and usually reads a book. After more than a week, Grégoire wants to speak to the woman, but at that very moment she goes to the toilet. So he steals her wallet and calls her to tell her that he has found her wallet and that he wants to give it back to her at 7.30 pm at a meeting in the café. Grégoire is asked by his work colleague Emmanuel to make photocopies for him so that he is home in time to watch the football match.

Grégoire is initially thrown out of a copy shop due to a misunderstanding and has to pay four times as much for the copy in the second copy shop. Then he notices that he has locked himself out of the office, but that his jacket and wallet are still there. He wants to go to the cafe across the street to make a phone call and meets a man on the phone who is on the phone with his ex-girlfriend and when the conversation is over he decides to tell her he loves her. Grégoire has problems with information and ends up using all of his money on the phone. He tries to avoid paying for the coffee he has ordered and is arrested for it. The police officers are also given an assignment to deal with vandalizing hooligans . The hooligans beat up the police officers and Grégoire is able to flee. He gets into a taxi and is threatened with a gun after telling the taxi driver that he cannot pay. The taxi driver pushes him out of the car, whereupon Grégoire is hit by a couple who take him to their apartment and want to rape him. He can put the woman out of action, but the man continues to pursue him. Grégoire escapes from the apartment and ends up at a costume party at which he beats up a man disguised as Adolf Hitler and puts on his costume in order to flee from the rapist who mistakes the originally disguised for Grégoire and rapes him.

While Odile is already waiting in the café and reading the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert enthusiastically , Grégoire takes to the street in his Adolf Hitler appearance, meets police officers and, on the run from them, hops into any apartment, where he meets the suicidal Hélène who faints. Grégoire breaks away from his Adolf Hitler appearance and wakes Hélène, who is grateful to him for “saving him from the man” and wants to drive him to the café to see his beloved Odile. The man who had a phone call with his ex-wife in the café storms after the car. He turns out to be Hélène's ex-boyfriend, who left him because he didn't want to die with her. In the meantime, Odile has problems reading with concentration, as some football fans are all around her in the café and watch the game on the TV in the café roaring wildly.

Hélène and Grégoire have a car accident. They drove into the taxi driver's car, who then fired his rifle at them several times. You can escape and meet hooligans who they steal their cars. There is another accident and the hooligans and the taxi driver threaten Grégoire, who steals a pizza delivery man's motorcycle and drives it to Emmanuel so that he - angry about the defeat at the football game - gives him the keys to the office. After some turbulence and encounters, Grégoire drives to the office and gives Odile back her wallet, who admits that she has been watching him for days and is secretly in love with him. She asks Grégoire to wait and goes to the bathroom. Grégoire waits on the street, where taxi drivers, hooligans and police officers threaten him with weapons. The hooligans, the police and the taxi driver kill each other. Hélène appears and a short time later is shot by her ex-boyfriend, who then commits suicide. More police officers, who were hired by the person disguised as Adolf Hitler, arrest Grégoire, who is waiting in shock for Odile next to the corpses.

Grégoire is sentenced to life imprisonment and has to share a room with the rapist. After a year in prison, he and his prison roommate break out in a revolt. Grégoire goes to Odile and picks her up from her ballet school. They travel to another planet where “there is no soccer” and where they perform a joyful dance with aliens.

reception

The film, shot on locations in Paris, was released in French cinemas on October 24, 2001, where 79,360 visitors saw it. This was followed by cinema releases in Belgium, Spain, Great Britain and Mexico. In Germany the film was not shown in cinemas, but only released on DVD in April 2005 . Later it ran on German-speaking television.

Critics compared the film and the bizarre characters appearing in the film with the multi-award-winning film The fabulous world of Amélie with Audrey Tautou , in which Artus de Penguern, who made his feature film debut against the rest of the world with Grégoire Moulin , played a supporting role.

Reviews

The German television magazine TV Spielfilm wrote about the film that it was an "entertaining obstacle race and an entertaining trip to Paris", while the Austrian television magazine TV-Media wrote that it was a "black chaos comedy" and a "crazy debut film".

BBC's Jane Crowther gave the film three stars out of five and wrote that the ending was very stupid and ironic, but entertaining beforehand.

Awards

The film was nominated in 2002 for the French César film award in the category Best First Work , but had to admit defeat to Danis Tanović's Oscar- winning anti-war film No Man's Land .

At the double film festival Avignon / New York Film Festival 2002 the film won the Roger for best French feature film .

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