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CRUSTACES ET COQUILLAGES
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Director:
Olivier Ducastel
Jacques Martineau

Screenplay:
Olivier Ducastel
Jacques Martineau

Cast:
Béatrix: Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi
Marc: Gilbert Melki
Didier: Jean-Marc Barr
Mathieu: Jacques Bonnaffé
Charly: Romain Torres

Awards:
Label Europa Cinemas (Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau), Berlin International Film Festival (2005)

Running time: 93’
Production: France, 2005
Rating: Not rated
Gauge: DVD (color)

Distributor:
Strand Releasing

“Co-writers and directors Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau have made a romper that doesn’t shy away from sexual frankness or Mediterranean laissez-faire.”
Desson Thomson, Washington Post



Marc takes his wife Béatrix and their two children to the seaside house of his youth on a summer vacation. The Mediterranean wind blows, the sea and the heat of summer stoke their desires. Their daughter Laura leaves for Portugal with her biker boyfriend. Their son Charlie, age 17, is left to roam around with his best friend Martin. Sensitive to the charged atmosphere that exists between Charlie and Martin, Béatrix imagines that her son is gay. Charlie tries to explain to his parents that he is not gay but, as he will soon discover, they are more enthralled by their own love affairs. Béatrix’s lover Mathieu shows up, inventing all sorts of excuses to steal time with her. Marc’s old flame, the local plumber appears reviving Marc’s repressed homosexuality. Complications escalate in a series of misunderstandings but the story has a happy ending. This typical vaudeville has fast rhythm, witty dialogue and an energetic storyline that concludes with an erotically-charged musical number about the aphrodisiac powers of shellfish.

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