A Few Days with Me (1988) 1080p FRA BluRay x265 10bit FLAC 2.0 - ...

Newly released from a psychiatric hospital when the film begins, Martial is dispatched to the sleepy provincial town of Limoges to perform a routine check-up on one of the family stores. It’s not long, however, before he flummoxes the local riff-raff and petit bourgeoisie alike by taking up with Francine, the semi-literate housemaid of the fussbudget store manager. Chocked full of delightful secondary characters, including Francine’s lovable lug of a boyfriend and Martial’s exasperated, drama queen mother, this splendid riff on the Pygmalion story turns on a dime from gentle class satire to full-blown farce, culminating in a psychedelic dinner party from hell worthy of Jacques Tati. Sautet himself would come to rank A Few Days, alongside César and Rosalie and Max and the Junkmen, as his personal favorites among his own films.


This film is a part of my Claude Sautet collection, which includes:

Classe tous risques / The Big Risk
The Dictator's Guns / L'Arme à gauche
The Things of Life / Les Choses de la vie
Max and the Junkmen / Max et les ferrailleurs
Cesar and Rosalie / César et Rosalie
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others / Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
A Simple Story / Une histoire simple
A Bad Son / Un mauvais fils
Waiter! / Garçon!
A Few Days with Me / Quelques jours avec moi
A Heart in Winter / Un cœur en hiver
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud / Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud