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| Jean-Charles Clichet in Nobody's Hero |
Cast: Jean-Charles Clichet, Noémie Lvovsky, Ilies Kadri, Michel Masiero, Doria Tillier, Renaud Rutten, Philippe Fretun, Farida Rahouadj, Miveck Packa, Yves-Robert Viala, Patrick Ligardes. Screenplay: Alain Guiraudie, Laurent Lunetta. Cinematography: Hélène Louvart.
Nobody's Hero has no credited production designer or film editor, which suggests that it all somehow came together on the streets of the French city of Clermont-Ferrand and in the head of writer-director Alain Guiraudie. And considering the almost random and accidental events and eccentric, impulsive characters that make up its narrative, that could be true. It's one of those movies in which no one does or is precisely what you expect. Suffice it to say that it's a slightly darkish comedy about a middle-aged man who picks up a prostitute, takes her to a seedy hotel run by an elderly man and a teenage girl, discovers that she's married to a jealous man, and somehow gets himself and the others, as well as the tenants of the apartment house where he lives, involved in an international terrorist incident that may not be international or terrorist after all. All the actors in this head-spinning but amusing movie play it as if it makes sense, which is the only way to do this sort of thing. Whether you think this sort of thing is worth doing is another matter entirely.
