Heat Wave
– In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its ..
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the farmers whose fields are not irrigated. Which is the reason why the residents are less and less well-disposed toward one of them, Joseph, a mentally retarded young man whose never-ending antics are becoming, in such fraught context, something of an intolerable inconvenience. The mayor tries desperately to calm things down but nothing helps...
12 Aug 2015
French
Raphaël Jacoulot
Lise Macheboeuf (scenario), Raphaël Jacoulot (scenario)
Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Grégory Gadebois, Karim Leklou, Carole Franck
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the farmers whose fields are not irrigated. Which is the reason why the residents are less and less well-disposed toward one of them, Joseph, a mentally retarded young man whose never-ending antics are becoming, in such fraught context, something of an intolerable inconvenience. The mayor tries desperately to calm things down but nothing helps...
3 wins & 1 nomination.