Macadam Stories

2015 [FRENCH]

Comedy / Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 3846 3.8K

Director

Samuel Benchetrit Photo
Samuel Benchetrit

Top cast

Michael Pitt Photo
Michael Pitt as John McKenzie
Isabelle Huppert Photo
Isabelle Huppert as Jeanne Meyer
Gustave Kervern Photo
Gustave Kervern as Sterkowitz
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Photo
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as L'infirmière
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921.95 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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1.67 GB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 40 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by searchanddestroy-1

A curious tribute to cinema and loneliness. Or loneliness in the cinema

This movie is sad and funny in the same time. This is a separate stories tale that takes place in a tumble down building, in the suburb of a big city. Poverty row. That's the setting. In this building, first you have a lonely cripple man in his wheel chair who, after a vascular accident - Gustave Kervern - tries to date a night nurse of the local hospital - Valeria Bruni Tedeshi - who is also a lonely soul. This scheme is an open tribute to BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY; even the dumbest could see it. Second, you have another weirder scheme, tribute this time to GRAVITY and a slice of 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY, and showing an American astronaut arriving from space after the collapse of his rocket ship and finding shelter in a flat of the building, helped by a lonely woman, mother of her convict son. A lonely woman, of course. And the third story shows a former actress - Isabelle Huppert - who has lost all her shining stardom and who befriends a young man living on the same floor. This third scheme is probably a tribute to a movie I don't exactly know, maybe a IsabelleHuppert's film. I would not be surprised. One important thing, those three tales are told with a pretty good editing. You have not here three stories shown one after the other... See what I mean? Go and see it. It's worth watching.
Reviewed by chacrolamqui 8 / 10

A Delight!

The film was recommended on none of the "Best Of" lists for 2015 and I wouldn't have added to my list of what to watch for that year had I not been a fan of Michael Pitt. Thank Heavens he led me to it, though! I sat and smiled at the touchingly comic scenes all the way through and, rare for me, want to watch it again. Why don't more film makers realise that people being gentle and tender towards each other can make for a really charming, enjoyable film? The actors all do the necessary underplaying with great skill and seem to relish the odd situations and dialogue - Pitt explaining the outcome of a TV series by gesture alone is a marvel. Don't miss it!
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