Asphalte

It looks like a Michel Lebrun's novel: AUTOROUTE, which was not adapted on screen, at least as far as I I know, unfortunately, a social thriller in the disaster genre, involving several characters whose paths are supposed - or not - to cross with motorway as settings. Motorway, one of the most notorious element of the modern consumer society, corollary of the car, queen car, whithout which everyone id totally "paralysed". A movie destined to feel anyone among audiences concerned, families leaving for vacations, summer vacations: millions of them. Dozens of millions. Jean-Pierre Marielle was the perfect exemple of the common French man. A movie evoking speed excess, and car crashes that supposes. Yes, a social drama presented as a kind of disaster movie in the great American way, but with a lesser budget of course. In summer, motorways may be the most dangerous place in France because of the millions of people on departure or return. Excellent chracter study where many audiences can recognize themselves.