Camping
Fabien Onteniente - 2006

 

CAMPING

In French with English subtitles.

Bande Annonce en français
(Movie Trailer in French)

AWARDS
- Winner 2006 NRJ Ciné Award for Best Comedy and Best Movie Quote (Franck Dubosc).

Why does (Camping) succeed? Because behind the "franchouillarde" ("Frenchy") comedy lurk social and sentimental dramas (...) and they ring true! Eric Derobert - Positif

Camping is a popular film, at times moving, that never makes fun of people. Pierre Vavasseur - Le Parisien

A portrait of the "beaufitude" ("French trash") attitude, between cruelty and tenderness. Jean-Pierre Guérand - Le Nouvel Observateur

Director: Fabien Onteniente

Screenplay: Franck Dubosc & Emanuel Booz

95 min

Not Rated (some nudity, language)

Distribution: Pathé International

COMEDY

Cast :

Gérard Lanvin: Michel Saint-Josse

Mathilde Seigner: Sophie Gatineau

Franck Dubosc: Patrick Chirac

Claude Brasseur: Jacky Pic

Mylène Demongeot: Laurette Pic

Antoine Duléry: Paul Gatineau

It's the first of August. The "Camping des Flots Bleus" (Blue Waves Campground), on the French Atlantic coast welcomes its regular vacationers as it does every year.

Tents and trailers, canned food, barbecues, pastis, flip-flops and shorts – leisure life is beautiful! However, this year, things aren’t going so well in the campground’s alleys. Patrick Chirac (Franck Dubosc)– a playboy from Dijon – is still waiting for his wife to arrive; the Gatineau family (Mathilde Seigner and Antoine Duléry) have set up their tent elsewhere; and the Pics (Claude Brasseur and Mylène Demongeot) have been ousted from their usual space by a young Dutch couple...

Meanwhile Michel Saint-Josse (Gérard Lanvin) a Parisian plastic surgeon, accompanied by his daughter, heads for Marbella behind the wheel of his new Aston Martin. When his sleek automobile breaks down and all the hotels are full, he has no other choice but to accept Patrick Chirac’s offer to share his six-person tent.

And everyone is in for a hilarious culture shock...

Shown with Oktapodi by Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi

Q&A with Kevin Elstob, Professor of French at CSUS, follows the Sunday screening.

Saturday 20th - 6:45pm & Sunday 21st - 1:40pm