Welcome to the Sticks was our first film of the festival. A sold-out audience joined me + Cal in laughing all the way through this.
A post office manager gets transferred to the far north of France, where he surprisingly finds himself enjoying life; but due to extreme storytelling contrivance he keeps telling his wife far to the south that he’s having a miserable time.
It was a broad, silly, undemanding comedy/farce The subtitles managed to keep up with the endless play with language as dialect differences led to misunderstandings and the transplanted manager struggled to navigate local pronunciation. Good fun. Catch it on DVD for a goofy night in. Added value: seeing someone play a carrillon – I’ve never actually seen what that looks like before.