Quote:
In a working-class neighbourhood, a group of teenagers are plotting a murder while Polo the local loan shark is preparing to celebrate his 43th birthday. L’eau chaude l’eau frette is a poetics of cruelty, a celebration of anarchy in which friend and foe, young and old, come together to party, wash their dirty linen in public, and settle accounts.Read More »
Synopsis:
A simple but effective tale, Bar salon tells the story of Charles, a man in his fifties whose saloon business is losing money and about to go under. Since he cannot pay his employees, his daughter Michèle begins working at a bar in addition to her job as cashier in a fish market. Every evening she serves the few remaining clients: the refined but aging Major Cotnoir, the vulgar drunk Leslie, Michèle’s unambitious, taxing-driving fiancé Robert and Julien, whose wife flaunts her affair with a lodger.Read More »