
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60 and is about to retire from his job in a slaughterhouse. He has always worked from the age of sixteen, never been on sick leave. So, how will this man fill his days? He does not like reading; doing odd jobs about the house is not his cup of tea; shopping is not his passion ... To make matters worse, his wife Catherine, who still works in a supermarket, notices that her husband will not get full retirement benefits since some of his former e... (Full plot summary below)
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Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60 and is about to retire from his job in a slaughterhouse. He has always worked from the age of sixteen, never been on sick leave. So, how will this man fill his days? He does not like reading; doing odd jobs about the house is not his cup of tea; shopping is not his passion ... To make matters worse, his wife Catherine, who still works in a supermarket, notices that her husband will not get full retirement benefits since some of his former employers failed to do the requisite paperwork. So off goes Serge, riding his old Munch "Mammut" bike, in search of the missing documents ...
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| JWRS. James WeggAt last, a film to savour on all fronts. Actor Gérard Depardieu gives a master class performance playing Serge Pilardosse. |
| Time OutDavid JenkinsThe gauche humour of 'Mammuth' camouflages a sweet torch song to the struggles of the working class in the face of private- and public-sector indifference. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawA funny, sad and weird road movie starring Gérard Depardieu in a pungent role. |
| Village VoiceMelissa AndersonToo limp and scattershot to warrant anything stronger than indifference. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsDepardieu ... is yet again the overmastering reason to see a film that without him would be masterless and quickly, in the mind, over. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmIt is often quite offbeat, anarchic stuff about how time and age tend to betray us. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsGerard Depardieu embarks on a road trip through France in a comedydrama that begins well before taking an unwelcome surreal detour. A pity, because the first half hour is very, very funny. |
| Birmingham PostGraham YoungDepardieu's lugubrious features have rarely been better suited to playing a character who is such a handful that he is duty-bound to shock. |
| Total FilmTom DawsonBelgian filmmakers Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern return with an often surreal road movie, which blends social commentary with deadpan humour. |
| Empire MagazineDavid ParkinsonA quirky road-trip movie with things to say. A return to form for Depardieu too. |