Macadam Stories
(Asphalte)(2015)
Writer-director Samuel Benchetrit's fifth feature film release is an urban comedy-drama about the lonely inhabitants of a council estate. Based on the director's own autobiography and starring Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.... More
"A broken elevator, a man in a wheelchair, an astronaut and an actress with shattered dreams. With a housing complex as a backdrop, [Benchetrit] depicts three stories about the unsteadiness of life. With poetic, comic and non-conventional perspectives he paints a tender portrait of human relations." (Stockholm Film Festival)Hide
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Directed by Samuel Benchetrit ('I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster')
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Gustave Kervern, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Tassadit Mandi, Jules Benchetrit, Michael Pitt, Mickaël Graehling, Larouci Didi
Written by Samuel Benchetrit (based on Samuel Benchetrit's autobiography 'Les Chroniques de l'Asphalte')
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A quirky and endearing urban dramedy set within a run-down French apartment house, Macadam Stories (Asphalte) marks a strong fifth feature from the otherwise inconsistent writer-director-actor Samuel Benchetrit (I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster). Full Review
...in the end, “Macadam Stories” is too innocuous to leave much of an impression. Full Review
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