Au nord ...

This is a movie you will probably never hear of. You just need to know that it is since this month the best entry in France, ever. It even had more entries than "La Grande Vadrouille" with De Funès and Bourvil and that was 40 years ago with 17 millions people who went to the theatre. France is a dual country divided by the River Loire. Whenever you hear the weather news there is a big chance it will be said that it's raining north of the Loire and sunny south of the Loire. And it's not a cliché. But the film is full of clichés. But they are true. Anything you can imagine about people from south and north of France are there and it is probably the reason why this movie has so much success because I think French are not afraid to make fun on them. And for one time there is no word about Paris. The plot is simple. A manager of a postoffice in south of France wants to be promoted "on the sea" and try to do anything to succeed. And he does but the "wrong" way and is moved to the north of France. The real one. Because for the postman, the north of France, when you live on the riviera, does not go further than Lyon ! And it starts. Up there it's raining all the time, it's north pole, people never grew up from stone age, they're drunk all the time, it's depression and you just don't want to go there. True. Nobody does. But from all clichés you have of this region you have to remember beautiful (true) things : I spent one year with people of the north some years ago and they are the friendliest french people. Ever. It is true you don't understand a word they say when they speak to each other because their language is different. More flemish than french, due to the proximity with Belgium. And the most beautiful thing said in the film : when you arrive in this part of France to (try) make a living you cry twice : one time when you arrive, the other time when you leave.