French film about a kayaker
The Sweet Escape (French title: Comme un avion) is a French comedy film written, directed by and starring Bruno Podalydès.
One day, Michel sees a picture of a , a fifty year old man, graphic designer, decides to change the urban lifestyle and go on an adventure..
Film Review: ‘The Sweet Escape’
In “The Sweet Escape,” French comedic filmmaker Bruno Podalydes has mastered the look of a man with his head in the clouds — a vacant-stare dreamer grounded by his dead-end desk job who resolves to set off on a solitary voyage of self-discovery.
Not so much a midlife crisis as the sort of middle-class indulgence afforded to white men with no greater dramatic problems to concern them, Podalydes’ patience-straining excursion amounts to an uneventful kayak ride downstream, rendered in the gentle, sunny style of an Alexander Payne movie, minus the laughs.
(The jokes are there, but prove either too broad or too French to translate.) Passed over by Cannes in a year crowded with Gallic gems, the unassuming pic should do fine at home, but won’t get much farther than Podalydes’ easily distracted character does.
At 50, Michel (Podalydes) has spent the better part of his life d
