GROSSE FATIGUE

Name: GROSSE FATIGUE
Item: GROSSE FATIGUE
Author: Gaby Gaduh

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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(AB, H, LLL, VV, SS, Ho, NN, A, D) Existentialist & nihilistic worldview with some anti-biblical elements mocking a miracle & Easter Sunday; 30 obscenities, 4 profanities & 20 vulgarities; moderate violence including 13 handgun shots, 4 shotgun shots causing extensive property damage, only one person wounded, dangerous car chase, foot chase with gun, physical punching, slapping, hitting, choking, & talk of suicide; forced homosexuality implied, orgy implied, sexual foreplay depicted, & off-screen rape; and, alcohol use & prescription drug use.

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GROSSE FATIGUE (“Totally Exhausted”) deals with famous French auteur Michel Blanc who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Michel finds himself facing not only an important scriptwriting deadline, but is also indicted for a series of crimes and improprieties that he did not commit or at least he cannot remember committing them. While staying in the country home of his co-star, Carole Bouquet, to finish his script, they both discover the source of his problems. A wily actor-impersonator is cashing in on Michel’s fame to get money and sexual favors. In the chase to stop the impersonator, Michel descends deeper and deeper into a comic nightmare where he no longer is sure of his own identity.

GROSS FATIGUE works splendidly as an allegory, but as a film, loses its identity. The directing, editing and camerawork are masterfully done; and the score provides a superb counterpoint against which the film is played. GROSSE FATIGUE is a comic gem that makes exquisite use of double entendre and irony, but the excessive sex, violence and language will be highly offensive to moral Americans.