welcome aboard (bienvenue parmi nous) 2012 region free dvd5 french bcbc

Welcome Aboard (Bienvenue parmi nous) is a drama French directed by Jean Becker and starring Patrick Chesnais and Jeanne Lambert.

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Synopsis

At the height of his fame, Taillandier (Patrick Chesnais) suddenly stops painting. Deeply depressed, he leaves town with no plans and without a word to his close friends. During his travels Taillandier has a strange encounter with Marylou (Jeanne Lambert), a troubled teenager who has been rejected by her mother. The meeting unexpectedly brings peace to both lost souls and they travel together, living like father and daughter.



Stars:

Patrick Chesnais, Jeanne Lambert, Miou-Miou, Jacques Weber, Xavier Gallais, Didier Bénureau, Julien Barbier, Urbain Cancelier, Amaury Baudoin, Ludovic Berthillot



REVIEW: 'Welcome Aboard'

I’d hate to accuse a film of being “quintessentially French” – but with Welcome Aboard's conversations about life, death, sex and sensibility it’s tempting… Patrick Chesnais plays Paul Taillandier, a sixty-something artist so depressed that he proclaims: “Getting up in the morning is a feat.” Running away from his home and family, Paul’s attempt to end it all is rudely interrupted by another wounded soul – fifteen-year-old hitchhiker, Marylou – played by Jeanne Lambert with a subtle sense of the real that matches her older co-star.



The two runaways may be separated by decades, but this odd couple gradually help one another heal. The artist regains his lost inspiration with his unlikely young muse, and there’s a delicate sense of hope in the old learning as much from the young as the young from the old.



Those familiar with director Jean Becker’s previous films (such as Conversations with My Gardener), will relish the slow character-driven narrative, with the focus on dialogue and a subtle exchange of looks and glances that lend proceedings an intimate sense of reality. Grounded by Arthur Cloquet’s no-nonsense cinematography, which tells the tale without too many cinematic flourishes, there’s little overt comedy, save a wonderfully rude restaurant Maître D’ (Xavier Gallais), whose repulsion at Marylou ordering a burger and fries is conveyed by the raising of an elegant eyebrow.



There’s nothing to offend and nothing new here, but it remains an engrossing, heart-warming and deceptively simple tale well told.