Pas si méchant que ça

In one of his earliest roles, Gerard Depardieu plays the son of a carpenter who runs a small business in a quiet Swiss town; when his father has a stroke and Depardieu has to keep the business going despite poor sales, he starts robbing post offices and banks to pay his employees. It may sound a little like Bonnie and Clyde or Robin Hood, but the Swiss writer-director Claude Goretta seems almost ideologically opposed to conventional excitement (although there IS one great scene of Depardieu running and crashing through a glass door). The film doesn't really go anywhere, but it coasts along on its pleasant locations and the charm of its three leads, of which Dominique Labourier shines brightest (who the hell would cheat on Dominique Labourier? By far the film's hardest-to-take development). **1/2 out of 4.