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(Bouquet Final) U.S. Premiere Comedy France, 2008 In French with English subtitles 35mm/1.85/Color/Digital DTS/101 min Written & Directed by: Michel Delgado Based on the original idea of: Sylvie Pialat Cinematography by: Pascal Gennesseaux Editing by: Joëlle Hache Original Music by: Frédéric Porte Produced by: Sylvie Pialat, Christophe Riandée Production Company: Les Films du Worso Co-production: Gaumont, France 3 Cinéma International sales: GAUMONT 30 avenue Charles-de-Gaulle 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine Tel: +33 1 46 43 20 00 www.gaumont.com With: Didier Bourdon (Gervais Bron), Marc-André Grondin (Gabriel), Bérénice Béjo (Claire), Marthe Keller (Nickye), Gérard Depardieu (Hugo), Chantal Neuwirth (Evelyne), Marilu Marini (Carmen), Valérie Bonneton (Marie Thanato), Michel Galabru (M. Froissard), Anne Girouard (Natacha) www.bouquetfinal-lefilm.com Unable to succeed as a musician, struggling composer Gabriel (Marc-André Grondin, The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (COL•COA 2009), Che: Part Two) embarks on a corporate job search. After failing too many interviews, he accepts to work with an old friend as an executive in the funeral business, but hides the nature of his job to his artist parents and his new girlfriend Claire. Sent to train with Gervais Bron (Didier Bourdon, The Blood of Others, The Machine) a bitter funeral home director who had hoped to be promoted to his position, Gabriel gradually adapts to his new job until he finds out that Claire is the granddaughter of a client he has shamelessly robbed of all his savings. ABOUT MICHEL DELGADO A former journalist, Michel Delgado started writing in the early 1990s. After working on various comedies, including The Tenors (1993), Revenge of a Blonde (1994) and Two Dads and One Mom (1996), he co-wrote episodes for the popular television mini-series The Red Summer (2002). His latest projects include the adaptation of the comic book Corsican File (2004) and The Red Inn (COL•COA 2008) a remake of the Jean Aurenche & Claude Autant-Lara horror classic. He frequently collaborates with Christian Clavier and Gérard Jugnot, two well-known comedians whose comedy saga Les Bronzés was a huge boxoffice success in France. Michel Delgado has also acted in some of his films, including The Corsican File and The Tenors. Final Arrangements is his directorial debut. PRESS "The most successful scenes – hence the funniest – are based on a quasi documentary-like description of the undertaker job, with a million details on the various coffins “options” available or how to beautify a corpse. Thanks to Didier Bourdon, always perfect in the role of the hypocrite and to Valérie Bonneton, stunning as the mortician, Delgado is able to fully express his dark and abrasive humor sometimes reaches a delirious macabre quality that is too rare in French cinema." (Télérama) |