Boudu

2005 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy

IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 1334 1.3K

Plot summary

A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless man, Boudu, from the waters of a canal who was trying to drown himself. Heroic to his detriment, he brings him home, for a few hours only... The incongruous arrival of Boudu will act like a mad dog in the game of skittles that is Christian's life...

Director

Gérard Jugnot Photo
Gérard Jugnot

Top cast

Gérard Depardieu Photo
Gérard Depardieu as Boudu
Luc Palun Photo
Luc Palun as Le fromager
Jean-Paul Rouve Photo
Jean-Paul Rouve as Hubert
Hubert Saint-Macary Photo
Hubert Saint-Macary as Bob
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
960.36 MB
1280*544
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   no  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 1
1.93 GB
1920*816
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   no  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by writers_reign

Oh, You Beautiful Dolle

Reviewed by groggo 5 / 10

Enjoyable but tiresome

This is a remake of Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932), which Paul Mazursky remade in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986).I'm not sure why it had to be done again (a universal dearth of ideas possibly), but it's not a bad piece of fluff, an enjoyable waste of time. Its only real problem is its length: it just runs out steam. Jugnot and Depardieu are fun to watch for a while, but you just know their mutual fulminations and frustrations are going to wane; sure enough, it happens, at about the 75-minute mark. After that, it just goes downhill, and there just isn't any fun anymore.Depardieu offers us yet another self-mocking caricature of Gerard Depardieu. I like him a lot -- it's somehow endearing to see this universally known actor fearlessly showing his bulbous belly and nude derriere to a worldwide audience. It's somehow very European, or maybe just French. I've always loved Catherine Frot, and her ditzy performance adds a lot to the silliness.Good comedies are hard to find. One reason is that they can rarely sustain the comedy and the 'plot' convincingly over a feature length. This is the fate of this latest incarnation of Boudu.
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