Eric Picou

フランスの名優、ジェラール・ドパルデューの代表作といわれる作品。1640年のブルゴーニュ。詩人にして剣客のベルジュラックは、従妹のロクサーヌが困っているところを助ける。愛する彼女に近づけると思ったが……。

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.

In Paris, Bertrand, 12, runs away from home. While trying to steal something to eat in a supermarket, he meets Boris who saves him from getting into trouble and lets him stay at his home. Boris is an odd sort of man and Bertrand is an odd sort of boy. They gradually become acquainted...