LOVE SONG FOR TOUGH GUYS
CETTE MUSIQUE NE JOUE POUR PERSONNE
Director
Samuel Benchetrit
Cast
François Damiens, Vanessa Paradis, Ramzy Bedia, Gustave Kervern, Joeystarr, Vincent Macaigne
Producer
A Single Man Productions
Screenwriter
Samuel Benchetrit, Gabor Rassov
Sales
Orange Studio
At the heart of a port city where isolated beings, used to violence, suddenly find their lives turned upside down by theater, poetry and art and their everyday existence transformed by love…
CINEMANIA’s opinion:
Four years after DOG, his last offbeat and incisive feature film, Samuel Benchetrit returns with LOVE SONGS FOR TOUGH GUYS, a delicious bitter-sweet comedy with a larger- than-life five star cast (from Vanessa Paradis to Joey Starr, Ramzy and Vincent Macaigne…). In the port of Dunkirk, Jeff (Francois Damiens) leads his wacky band of aging gangsters, who have become his family, never hesitating to orchestrate small local rackets. But despite their petty thefts, the crooks reveal themselves, in the course of their business, to be filled with emotions, touched by the joys of the day and allow themselves to be carried away by pure poetry (in the literal sense of the term). A ludicrous musical film, frontal and tender in the surrealist vein, that Benchetrit masters to perfection.
⇢ Presented in special selection at Cannes Première during the Festival de Cannes
CINEMANIA’s opinion:
Four years after DOG, his last offbeat and incisive feature film, Samuel Benchetrit returns with LOVE SONGS FOR TOUGH GUYS, a delicious bitter-sweet comedy with a larger- than-life five star cast (from Vanessa Paradis to Joey Starr, Ramzy and Vincent Macaigne…). In the port of Dunkirk, Jeff (Francois Damiens) leads his wacky band of aging gangsters, who have become his family, never hesitating to orchestrate small local rackets. But despite their petty thefts, the crooks reveal themselves, in the course of their business, to be filled with emotions, touched by the joys of the day and allow themselves to be carried away by pure poetry (in the literal sense of the term). A ludicrous musical film, frontal and tender in the surrealist vein, that Benchetrit masters to perfection.
⇢ Presented in special selection at Cannes Première during the Festival de Cannes
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