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Last of the Crazy People (The)

Country: France, Language: French, 95 mins

Original Title

Le Dernier des Fous... aka Demented
  • Director: Laurent Achard
  • Writer: Laurent Achard; Timothy Findley
  • Producer: Dominique Barneaud; Robert Guédiguian

CGiii Comment

No music and stark cruelty.

A family drives a little boy insane.

It may have been torture for the kid but it certainly is agonising for the viewer.

He lops from one catastrophe to the other - and, if you don't lose him along the way then you certainly need to take a long hard look at yourself.

This is cheerless in every sense of the word.

A turgid trek without any redemption and, perhaps, if truth be told...a masterwork depite its difficulties.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A family crisis: a crazy mother, a homosexual and depressive son, an absent father...set in the idyllic french countryside.

Cast & Characters

Julien Cochelin as Martin;
Annie Cordy as Rose;
Pascal Cervo as Didier;
Dominique Reymond as Nadege;
Dorine Bouteiller;
Jean-Yves Chatelais as Jean;
Florence Giorgetti;
Thomas Laroppe as Raphael;
Nicolas Leclere as L'instituteur;
Fattouma Ousliha Bouamari