Vaurien

It's very rare that an almost unknown director redoes one of his movies, after only six years ;"errance" tells the same story ,with the same anti-hero ,Djé ;only the location has changed :the former took place in Paris, the remake in Limoges.

The film met mixed critical reception ;while "telerama" praised it, "les cahiers du cinema" and "le monde" panned it;in the audience,opinions sharply differed too .

I would take the golden mean :it's a curate's egg of a movie; what is good,nobody can deny,is the principal : Pierre Deladonchamp,with his suave smile , ,his gift of the gab ,which he often keeps to the minimum ;he's not particularly handsome, he has a boy-next-door look but he has this un-petit-je-ne sais-quoi which seduces the girls and fascinates the boys. There's humor : the scene on the train with the girl talking so loud on the phone takes revenge on those people who seem to tell all the world about their so called interesting life in transportation ; how Djé gets away from the looting of the supermarket,pretending he is a policeman with his prisoner ; the two stories orally told ,more or less complete .

The principal succeeds in making his character mysterious ,elusive and discreetly dangerous .....and he's got his pride :when the SAMU social van (mobile emergency medical service for homeless people ) stops next to him ,he does not want to pass for a tramp (which he is ,for he's like the cuckoo that borrows the other birds from their nest.)

But it's not all good news : the screenplay is desultory, the secondary characters (particularly the former sociology student) are cardboard ; directing is that of an intellectual playing with trash ; one hopes this promising director will choose ANOTHER subject for his next effort :twice in enough!