June 2019 | BEST Cinematics Night
Time: 5-9pm
Room: Z808
Organisers: Alice Tam Vuong, Ho Fai Chan and Benno Torgler
We will be watching a French comedy this time – Welcome to the Sticks (French: Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis) (5:25 arrival for 5:30pm start). Blurb below and see this link for the movie trailer.
Plot
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard-of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch’ti. Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell.