2011 · comedy · romance · sports
Itinéraire bis
Directed by Jean-Luc Perreard1h 20m2011
35-year-old Jean still lives with his mother in a small village in Corsica and works as a cook in the family's restaurant. His future, to his great despair, is all mapped out: he'll take over the restaurant. But one day Nora, a young and forceful woman, is thrown into the sea from a racing yacht. She washes up on the beach at Jean's feet - adventure has at last knocked at his door.
Our read: Itinéraire bis (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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