It’s the end of the world. What do you do?
If you are Mathieu Amalric’s character in Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s Les Derniers jours du monde, you satisfy your, and other primal urges first. Starring Amalric, Sergi López, Catherine Frot, Karin Viard, Clotilde Hesme and Sabine Azema, this tells the story of Robinson, who is unable to forget the beautiful and cruel Laetitia, his only great love. The day before the destruction of the planet, Robinson leaves his bunker to be reunited with Laetitia in the most dangerous place on Earth: Paris.
From some reason, the trailer elicits thoughts of Hitchcock’s North By Northwest and of course, apocalyptic, human civilization is at risk and dwindling by the numbers type of plot line that Hollywood regularly gets wrong. Here we see a guy having perhaps the best time of his life and his unfulfillment comes from not being able to emancipate his true feelings and desires. The pic receives an August release in France, and from there I guess we can cross our fingers for TIFF appearance.
