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  Review by teamgal ★★½

  Don't come anywhere near this if you're looking for uplift.

  An incredibly bleak comedy about a retired laborer forced to revisit the sites of the dire, low-paying jobs with which he's frittered away his life. As he's forced to traverse the countryside gathering receipts that prove he's worked sufficiently to qualify for a pension, he encounters any number of scenarios perched on the fine-line between the comic and the tragic. Anyone labeling this film as "surreal" has never dealt with European bureaucracy or slept in its cheaper, roadside motels.

  César Awards, Every Best Picture Nominee

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  Review by Tom Morton ★★★

  One of my all-time favourite films is about a man's struggle to figure his life out after retirement, so when I realised Mammuth was heading down the same path, I hoped for great things. And to be fair, it does deliver great things - just not consistently, or in a particularly satisfying manner.

  Gerard Depardieu's character finds that the first thing he needs to do upon retirement is track down proof of employment from all of the places he has worked in order to be able to claim his pension. This sets him off on his aging motorcycle to meet old and new acquaintances and "learn how to live". This all sounds like it could be cheesy and inspiring, but…

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  Review by RivoliPalace ★★ 2

  Retirement can be a frightening change in life’s structure.  Especially when you are not giving it much thought as you have been diligently working your life away.  This is the situation Serge Pilardosse (Gèrard Depardieu) finds himself in.  Immersed in his work at a slaughterhouse he appears to reflect in his physical appearance what he has been physically doing.  Dressing down pigs and looking more and more slovenly as a result.  While his co-workers praise his dedication, his employer announces it’s time for Serge to retire.  “Let the party begin!” as they consume pork rinds and award Serge a gigantic jig saw puzzle as a parting gift.  Clearly, he is not impressed.  His wife Catherine (Yolande Moreau) still works at…

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  Review by Fernanda Andalo ★

  Possibly the worst movie ever made.

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  Review by CJ Johnson ★★★

  A worthy reminder that Depardieu has always been a fearless actor (and one devoid of movie star vanity). It’s good to see him embracing this ‘no money production’ so whole-heartedly, and the scene with the cousin is just wondrously open. Pity the film requires his character to do what he does to realise what he’s got, but, you know, 2010…

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  Review by A.A. Zane ★★★

  Is casually jerking off your cousin but not having it be a thing a...thing?

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  Review by Sarah 🗡️🎀 ★★½

  TVNZ has a film stream channel that features a small collection of world cinema and this was the movie my partner picked last night.

  It was quite funny in places, took some weird turns (and not the weird I like), but overall it had a nice message. The oddball arty niece was the highlight for me. I would love to be friends with someone like her

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  Review by lynntaylor ★½

  aaaaaah ouai... pourquoi je m'inflige ça

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  Review by nine ★★★★

  inattendu et surprenant, pour m’en souvenir depardieu a les cheveux longs et pas super propres

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  Review by MultitasKing ★★★½

  'Mammuth' ist schön schräges, als auch nachdenkliches Road-Movie mit Gérard Depardieu in einer eher ruhigen aber auch passenden Rolle.
  Mit einem leicht subtilen Humor versehen, erzählt der Film eine dann doch eher tragische Geschichte, welche ohne erwähnenswerten Längen und teils experimentellen, beabsichtigt verrauschten oder verschwommenen Sequenzen eine gelungene und nonkonforme Struktur bildet.
  Die allgemein unfreundliche Umgebung, mit der sich 'Mammuth' fast durchgehend auseinandersetzen muss, wirkte für meinen Geschmack dann leider doch etwas zu übertrieben und hätte getrost etwas geringer ausfallen können.
  Trotzdem ist der Film, mit all seinen teils skurrilen, teils realistischen, teils witzigen und teils traurigen Situationen ein unterhaltsames und atmosphärisches Road-Movie, was insgesamt meinen Geschmack gut getroffen hat.

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  Review by Dan O'Neill ★★

  Started off promising, but then weird shit just started happening everywhere I turned and I don't know.

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  Review by ALEXANDRE NAHON ★★★½

  Depardieu is brilliant and moving... The greatest French actor ever.