Casque bleu

Casque bleu

1994 · 98 min · FR · 5.6 (47 votes)
Dir. Gérard Jugnot · Starring Gérard Jugnot, Victoria Abril, Valérie Lemercier, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Micheline Presle, Claude Piéplu · Music Yves de Bujadoux
Comedy

Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…

VIBE

A darkly comedic and absurd journey where marital woes collide with the chaos of civil war. Expect biting satire and a sense of escalating, unpredictable tension as an ill-fated getaway spirals into a hostage situation.

darkly comedicabsurdisttensesatiricalsteadyEuropean arthousepolitical satiredark comedyinfidelityabsurdity of warmarital strife