Film in Pictures: Mathieu Amalric’s On Tour

I know how I feel about red, white & blue poster work – love it, but knowing how I felt about the only Burlesque show I happen to have seen in Paris two decades back, you won’t find me putting Mathieu Amalric’s feature directing debut too high up in my must see films to see in Cannes – and that’s of course due to the subject matter not the actor taking his directing career more seriously. Something worth noting, Amalric has made several short films. Here are some stills and the poster artwork for On Tour — Le Pacte is selling the picture. 

Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind – his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets – to start a new life in America. He comes back with a team of New burlesque strip-tease performers whom Joachim has fed fantasies of a tour of France, of Paris! Traveling from port to port, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism, despite the constant round of impersonal hotels with their endless elevator music and the lack of money. The show gets an enthusiastic response from men and women alike. But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. A quick return journey to the capital violently reopens old wounds…