Paris-Timbuktu ( París Tombuctú )

Paris-Timbuktu (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: París Tombuctú
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Goya Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Luis García Berlanga

Written By:
Javier G. Amezua
Jorge García Berlanga

Actors:
Michel Piccoli ..... Michel des Assantes
Concha Velasco ..... Trini
Amparo Soler Leal ..... Encarna
Juan Diego ..... Boronat
Eusebio Lázaro ..... Vicente
Javier Gurruchaga ..... Gaby
Santiago Segura ..... El Cura
Fedra Lorente ..... Benilde
Antonio Resines ..... Ciclista
Guillermo Montesinos ..... Planas
Enrique San Francisco ..... La Alcaldesa
Cristina Collado ..... Dam
Alexis Valdés ..... Sento
Manuel Alexandre

Synopsis:

Veteran Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga created this anarchic black comedy about sexual impotence and millennial anxiety. Though a Paris-based plastic surgeon spends much of his time and wealth on prostitutes, he is plagued by impotence. Despondent, he plans to commit suicide. After happening upon a bike with 'Paris-Timbuktu' painted on it, he decides to bike from France to Africa and kill himself there on New Year's Eve. But when his plans are thwarted in Spain by a painful boil on his bottom, he is forced to room with a pair of sisters in a remote village. Through them, he finds himself increasingly immersed in the local community, populated by the likes of a clergyman suspected of murder, a nudist garage mechanic, and a bizarre champion cyclist. Paris-Timbuktu was screened at the 1999 Montreal Film Festival.

Discovering he is impotent, a Parisian plastic surgeon steals a bicycle with the words 'Paris-Timbuktu' painted on it and decides to ride it south into Africa, so that he can kill himself on the millennium. Waylayed on his way there, he ends up stuck in a small Spanish town, living with two eccentric sisters. Soon the town's charms have won him over and he begins to feel at home with the colorful locals.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 20 April, 2007.

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