Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of returning to sunny Andalusia.
Acting
Gad Elmaleh's beleaguered everyman against Depardieu's volcanic entitlement.
Production
Andalusia as actual character—sun-drenched escape fantasy cinematography.
Director
Florence Quentin
Gad Elmaleh
Ramon
Gérard Depardieu
François Veber
Sabine Azéma
Alexandra Veber
Valeria Golino
Carmen Holgado
Gaëlle Bona
Stéphanie
Valentin Merlet
Alexandre Veber
Mar Sodupe
Mme Escobar
Isabelle Caubère
Violaine
Xavier Couture
Arnault Delahaye
Bob Swaim
Andrew Nicholson
Roger Pierre
M. Sonnier
Claudine Coster
Nora Sonnier
Cédric Chevalme
Bruce
Zinedine Soualem
Le chauffeur CL500
Vincent Dubois
Le chauffeur de Laurent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Florence Quentin co-wrote with her sister, mining their own bourgeois family dynamics for the Vebers' absurdity.
Gad Elmaleh, Morocco-born and France-raised, plays a Spanish character—reflecting 2000s French cinema's casual pan-Mediterranean casting.
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