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Actors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Aaltra |
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AALTRA is a Belgian movie written and directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern in 2004.
Two men, The Employee and The Ranch Hand, are neighbours. One day, they start to fight and they are both injured by the workpiece of a farming machine. A few days later, they get out of the hospital, paraplegic, on wheelchairs. They decide to go all by themselves to Finland, 2000 miles away, in order to ask Aaltra, the manufacturer of the farming machine, for damages. They travel through Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia, by car, truck and boat, but mainly alone on their wheelchairs.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Aaltra |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Road trip
Yes
Brain/Body not working?
- physical disability
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- missing body parts/abilities
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- (man) fat
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
- Scandinavia
- Germany
- Netherlands
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude male butt
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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