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Paris Tombuctu
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1999 |
| Running time: | 107 minutes |
| Cast: | Michel Piccoli |
| Director: | Luis GarcÃa Berlanga |
| Writer: | Jorge GarcÃa Berlanga |
Description: Veteran Spanish director Luis Garcia Berlanga created this anarchic black comedy about sexual impotence and millennial anxiety. Though a Paris-based plastic surgeon spends much of his time and wealth on prostitutes, he is plagued by impotence. Despondent, he plans to commit suicide. After happening upon a bike with Paris-Timbuktu painted on it, he decides to bike from France to Africa and kill himself there on New Year's Eve. But when his plans are thwarted in Spain by a painful boil on his bottom, he is forced to room with a pair of sisters in a remote village. Through them, he finds himself increasingly immersed in the local community, populated by the likes of a clergyman suspected of murder, a nudist garage mechanic, and a bizarre champion cyclist. Paris-Timbuktu was screened at the 1999 Montreal Film Festival.~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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