Low Cost

Low Cost

2011 · 86 min · FR · 5.0 (122 votes)
Dir. Maurice Barthélemy · Starring Jean-Paul Rouve, Judith Godrèche, Gérard Darmon, Etienne Chicot, Maxime Lefrançois, Vincent Lacoste
Comedy

Passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Beauvais have their patience tested to destruction when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air-conditioning. In the end, they are so fed up that they will do almost anything to get back home.

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This film feels like being stuck in a stale airport terminal, watching petty grievances escalate into surreal chaos. It's a darkly funny, increasingly desperate look at humanity pushed to its breaking point by mundane inconveniences.

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