Je n'aime pas les Crêpes Suzette
Raucous love songs, randy butchers, tortured youngsters in the midst of amorous torment – everything French under the sun – take these, mix, and create your own DIY romance.
After attempts at exchanging cooking recipes, an intense domestic altercation and an episode with a heavy breather, Isolde and Seashell, two young women of opposite personalities – the one blithe and fun-locing, the other morbid and depressive – roam the streets and cafes of Paris in search of – what else? – true love.
Through the eyes of the local butcher – a keen observer of humanity and part-time heavy-breather – we witness Isolde's generally disastrous and hopeless encounters with a series of patronizing, overbearing, excessively sentimental and gay men, and discover Seashell's jealous obsession with her boyfriend sonar. The butcher seems to own the key to their innermost secrets and thus acts as the commentator of this offbeat and quirky narrative.
When all hope of happiness and romance seems lost, the all-powerful and ubiquitous shopkeeper intervenes; he catches Sonar in a drunken stupor and morally redeems him. Sonar promises to be forever faithful to Seashell. Curtain on the first happy couple.
When Isolde and the Butcher inadvertently bump into each other at the kiosk – the topos of magic and romance – their destiny is sealed: they are clearly made for one another and gleefully hop off into the Parisian sunset, hand in hand.
Description source: Cinenova paper archive
