7 jours pas plus (2017)
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Benoît Poelvoorde, Alexandra Lamy, Pitobash Tripathy, Olivier Bony, François Maniquet
A gruff French bachelor agrees to help a destitute Bengali-speaking stranger find an address across town.
The story
In northern France, Pierre is a confirmed bachelor whose obsessive habits shape his days at a hardware store and evenings spent collecting articles about unusual and gruesome news. While walking along the harbor quays, he encounters an Indian man who has been violently thrown out of a van. The stranger is destitute and speaks only Bengali, but he shows Pierre a piece of cardboard bearing an address at the other end of the city. Though initially faced with a communication barrier, Pierre eventually decides to take him there.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Somewhere in India, in the middle of a lake, a young couple proposes to each other in an isolated boat. A cow suddenly falls from the sky and sends the boat to the bottom of the water. In northern France, Pierre (Benoît Poelvoorde) is a confirmed bachelor, obsessive and gruff, who works in a hardware store. He spends his days recounting the number of screws in his supplier’s boxes, and his evenings collecting articles about unusual and gruesome news stories. One day, as he is walking along the deserted quays of the harbor, he is approached by an Indian man (Pitobash Tripathy) who has been violently thrown out of a van. Completely destitute and speaking only Bengali, the man shows Pierre a piece of cardboard with an address written on it, at the other end of the city. Pierre eventually decides to take him there.
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