Pas très normales activités (2013)
Directed by Maurice Barthélémy

Comedy

Film Synopsis

After the sudden death of his grandmother, Octave decides to take up residence in her old house in the country with his girlfriend Karine.  The latter is less enthusiastic about the move and fails to see anything attractive about the uncomfortable homestead buried deep in the Creuse countryside of central France.  Octave is all for starting a new life and plans to earn his crust as a painter, taking inspiration from the picturesque location.  He keeps a record of his days by habitually filming everything that happens on his mobile phone.  During the night, the couple begin to experience a series of strange and worrying phenomena.  There are odd moaning noises, slight tremors and a mysterious red smoke drifting across the floor.  The reaction of their neighbours leads Octave and Karine to think that their new home is haunted.  One possible explanation is that Octave's grandmother was murdered - but by whom?  The finger of suspicion points towards the suspiciously mute Monsieur  Levantour, who is frequently seen loitering around the property.  Did he kill the old woman because of some petty vendetta?  To resolve the mystery, the couple invite a stranger, Thierry Musseau, into their house to film the bizarre goings on.  It soon becomes apparent that Musseau is some kind of weird pervert, the sort that takes pleasure in sniffing soiled underwear.  Realising that it is the spirits of his grandmother's dead pigs who are haunting the house Octave decides to hold a séance.  Unable to speak the pigs' language, he has no option but to enlist the help of Levantour, himself a victim of the pigs' curse, in exorcising the porcine menace once and forever...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Maurice Barthélémy
  • Script: Maurice Barthélémy
  • Cinematographer: Jean-François Hensgens
  • Music: Philippe Morino
  • Cast: Norman Thavaud (Octave Blin), Stefi Celma (Karine Leleu), Maurice Barthélémy (Thierry Musseau), Rufus (Levantour), François Bureloup (Gourvenec), Mauricette Gourdon (L'épicière), Michel Scourneau (Le pompiste), Dominique Marcas (La grand-mère), Patrick Bordier (Le voisin)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 84 min

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