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Mammuth

Mammuth

Comedy · 2010

Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...

Movie details

Mammuth

“A retiree battles to obtain his rightfully due pension.”

2010 Comedy 1h 32m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.1 / 10

3.9K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

59 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

47 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

5.8 / 10

Community rating

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Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Gustave Kervern · Benoît Delépine

Written by

Benoît Delépine · Gustave Kervern

Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth

Yolande Moreau

Yolande Moreau

Catherine Pilardosse

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani

L'amour perdu de Serge

Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde

Le récupérateur de métal

Philippe Nahon

Philippe Nahon

Le directeur gâteux de l'hospice

Bouli Lanners

Bouli Lanners

Le recruteur

Anna Mouglalis

Anna Mouglalis

La fausse handicapée

Court is in session

Put Mammuth on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.