Welcome to the sticks Bienvenue chez les ch'tis

Streaming video - 2008

his record-breaking comedy smashed the box office in France, where it was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Cesar Awards. Although living a comfortable life in a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, her husband Philippe tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town on the French Riviera, at any cost. When Philippe is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector he is immediately banished to Bergues, a distant town in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, Philippe leaves for Bergues, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. But Philippe soon realizes that ...all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell...

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Under the Milky Way 2008.
2018.
Language
French
Other Authors
Dany Boon (film director), Kad Merad (actor), Zoé Félix
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image
Item Description
Title from title frames.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time
01:46:08
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).