A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Acting
Maurice Garrel's watchful patriarch—menacing, tender, unknowable.
Direction
Piccoli's only directorial turn: theatrical, unapologetically odd.
Director
Michel Piccoli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Legendary actor Michel Piccoli directed only this one film, at age 66, after decades working with Buñuel and Godard.
The title's untranslatable 'Alors voilà'—roughly 'So there you have it'—captures French fatalism: life happens, we adjust, we dream of trucks.
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