Assistant Unit Manager
El ex operador de Fuerzas Especiales Frank Martin vive lo que parece ser una vida tranquila a orillas del Mediterráneo francés, donde presta sus servicios como un “transportador”, un mercenario que traslada bienes —humanos o de cualquier tipo— de un lugar a otro. Siempre sin preguntas de por medio. Frank, que en su Mercedes equipado lleva a cabo misiones secretas y a veces peligrosas, se apega a un estricto juego de 3 reglas que nunca rompe. Regla numero uno: Nunca modifiques el trato. Dos: Omitir nombres, Frank no quiere saber para quién trabaja o qué es lo que transporta. Tres: Nunca ver qué hay dentro del paquete. La carga más reciente de Frank aparenta ser igual a los incontables paquetes que ha entregado en el pasado. Ha sido contratado por un norteamericano conocido solamente como “Wall Street” para que lleve a cabo una entrega. Pero cuando Frank se detiene en el trayecto, se percata que su “paquete” se mueve...
Himself
A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others’ birthday parties, have wives and children and probably mortgages. Romain Goupil’s film appears to be a throwback to the experimental days of cinema verite. Either that or it’s a home movie, shot with a video camera, to an improvised script or no script at all.
Le gros
The idea for this film about a generation and its lost ideals came to Romain Goupil after attending several funerals of friends in the fall of 1996, where the '68 generation, now in influential positions in media or politics, kept meeting each other. It seemed as if the revolution that they had tried to make was being buried with each coffin. A MORT LA MORT is in some ways an homage to this generation, now in their fifties. They were a privileged generation that thought that they could change the world, doing everything that their parents failed to do. There were no actual deaths in France as there were in Germany or Italy, but the system was not ideal for personal issues or for love. There was always a scapegoat for the injustices of the world, be it capitalism or imperialism. That way the blame could be placed somewhere else. Some of the '68 generation are still faithful to the principles of their youth and still continue to fight for the illusions of the past.
Víctor, obrero, y Germinal, peluquero, son miembros activos de la Resistencia y no quieren que sus familias se enteren. Sin embargo, un día Blanche, la esposa de Víctor, y Marie, la hija de Germinal, los descubren. Marie, refugiada en la casa de su abuelo y simpatizante de Pétain, se convierte en contacto, mientras que Blanche abre su casa a los hombres de la Resistencia. Ella descubre entonces que su madre Louise, es igualmente un agente activo...
