Remy Kolpa Movies
In this bizarre surrealist comedy from France, a handful of oddball characters live in world where people heap strange forms of abuse on animals -- dwarves stage bullfights with rhinos, zoos open restaurants where the privileged can dine on the animals on display, and the wealthy lock themselves into their mansion with the angry pit bulls trained to protect them. In the midst of such madness, a stocky animal handler (Gustave Kervern) who can neither hear nor speak falls in with a pair of dissolute zookeepers (Benoit Delepine and Eric Martin) who are hooked on ketamine and shoot one another with tranquilizer darts for fun. The zookeepers involve their new friend in a crazy scheme to kidnap the pet dog of a very wealthy and extremely large woman, Avida (Velvet), but the three men prove to be wildly inept criminals, and once they're found out, Avida forces them to help her in a plan to take her own life. Featuring a cameo appearance from acclaimed filmmaker Claude Lelouch, Avida was written and directed by Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, who also act in the film; it received its American premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine, (more)
- 1986
In a murder mystery cum love story, Tommy (Scott Renderer) is looking for the reason why his brother Billy, a rock musician, is suddenly dead in Paris -- and discovers more than he ever wanted to know about his sibling. After Tommy arrives in the City of Light he talks with Billy's sleazy widow, who bad-mouths the deceased without regret. Next he finds out his brother's friends were anything but Boy Scouts; he eventually discovers Billy had a transvestite lover who is also dead. In the meantime, Tommy finds that drugs were also involved and it becomes clear Billy was murdered. After running into Billy's old girlfriend Julie (Gabrielle Lazure), Tom starts a torrid affair with her, though that will probably not derail his investigation. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gabrielle Lazure, Scott Renderer, (more)
