Augustin
Director: Anne Fontaine
Cast: Claude Pecher, Guy Casabonne, Jacqueline Vimpierre, James Lord, Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Nora Habib, Stéphanie Zhang, Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis:
Cast: Claude Pecher, Guy Casabonne, Jacqueline Vimpierre, James Lord, Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, Nora Habib, Stéphanie Zhang, Thierry Lhermitte
Synopsis:
Augustin Dos Santos is a benign simpleton with a slight stammer. He’s serious about his part-time job as a clerk for an insurance company, and he also acts, with small parts under his belt in commercials and experimental films. An agent finds his serious innocence perfect for a part as an odd bellman. Before his screen test, he volunteers for a day at a hotel. At his screen test, his inability to see the comic center of the scene makes him perfect for the part. Back at work, women co-workers tease him, and then he’s off to the countryside to play a vet in a government film about myxomatosis in rabbits. Can anything break through his serious view of reality?
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