News from Planet Mars
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1h 41m
Directed by Dominik Moll • Comedy • 2016 • France, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Francois Damiens, Vincent Mascaigne, Veerle Baetens
Philippe Mars is a reasonable man in an unreasonable world, but the planets have not been exactly aligned in his favor lately. With his son turning into a hardcore vegan, his daughter into a pathological overachiever, and his sister selling oversized paintings of their naked parents, it seems things start to go from bad to insane for our hero in this uproariously funny pitch black comedy.
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