Camping (2006)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Fabien Onteniente

Writers:

Emanuel Booz (writer)
Franck Dubosc (writer)
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Release Date:

26 April 2006 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Plastic Surgeon | Garage | Caravan | Swimwear | Thunderstorm

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Gérard Lanvin	...	Michel Saint-Josse
Mathilde Seigner	...	Sophie Gatineau
Franck Dubosc	...	Patrick Chirac
Claude Brasseur	...	Jacky Pic
Mylène Demongeot	...	Laurette Pic
Antoine Duléry	...	Paul Gatineau
Frédérique Bel	...	Christy Bergougnoux
Christine Citti	...	Madame Châtel
Laurent Olmedo	...	Le 37
Eliott Parillaud	...	Sébastien Gatineau
Béatrice Costantini	...	Madame de Brantes
Abbes Zahmani	...	Mendez, le garagiste
François Levantal	...	Boyer
Armonie Sanders	...	Vanessa Saint-Josse
Edéa Darcque	...	Sidy Mendez
Noémie Elbaz	...	Jessica
Michael Hofland	...	Cornelius
Ida Techer	...	Cornelia
Charlie Barde	...	Aurélie Gatineau
Dominique Orsolle	...	Madame Ballot
Dominique Régnier	...	Secrétaire clinique Michel
Olivier Doran	...	L'animateur du shogun
Emmanuelle Galabru	...	Séverine
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Perrine Blondel	...	Fétarde.
Emanuel Booz	...	Le maître d'hôtel
Nadine Girard
Bernard Montiel	...	Himself / En personne
Sophie Nollet	...	Nudist
Ari Vatanen	...	Himself / En personne

Directed by
Fabien Onteniente

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Emanuel Booz		writer (as Manu Booz)
Franck Dubosc		writer
Philippe Guillard		writer
Fabien Onteniente		writer

Produced by
Françoise Galfré	....	executive producer
Patrick Godeau	....	producer

Original Music by
Frédéric Botton

Cinematography by
Jérôme Robert

Film Editing by
Nicole Saunier
Vincent Tabaillon

Casting by
Gérard Moulévrier

Production Design by
Jean-Marc Kerdelhue

Art Direction by
Arnaud Le Roch

Costume Design by
Jacqueline Bouchard

Production Management
Nicole Firn	....	production manager
David Le Gall	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Felix Baudouin	....	second second assistant director
Véronique Labrid	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Lilith Bekmezian	....	assistant art director
Agnès Conan	....	trainee art department assistant
Lionel Pouchard	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Julien Bourdeau	....	dialogue editor
Hervé Buirette	....	sound re-recording mixer
Edouard d'Heucqueville	....	sound mix technician
Carl Goetgheluck	....	sound re-recording mixer
François Groult	....	sound mixer
Philippe Heissler	....	sound editor
Guillaume Hurmic	....	second sound assistant
Paul Lainé	....	sound
Nicolas Leroy	....	sound editor
Gaël Sicot	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Pascal Fauvelle	....	special effects technician
Charles-Axel Vollard	....	special effects technician
Olivier Zenenski	....	special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
François Cailleau	....	digital compositor
Berengere Dominguez	....	visual effects coordinator
David François	....	digital compositor
Sergeï Lourié	....	digital compositor
François Vagnon	....	visual effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Loïc Andrieu	....	Steadicam operator
Charlie Cointre	....	grip
Delphine Desbruères	....	second assistant camera
Pierric Gantelmi d'Ille	....	camera operator
Matthieu Lornat	....	assistant camera

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sabrina Riccardi	....	costumer
Florie Vaslin	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Nadine Mahé	....	second assistant editor
Elodie Mittet	....	assistant editor
Fabien Perniceni	....	editing supporter
Philippe Reinaudo	....	digital intermediate technical director
Grégoire Sivan	....	assistant editor
Raymond Terrentin	....	colorist

Transportation Department
Ghislain Le Guisquet	....	picture car
Olivier Suffert	....	picture car

Other crew
Géraldine Depardon	....	script supervisor assistant
Stéphanie Fouet	....	administrator
Françoise Thouvenot	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Alicéléo
• Pathé (co-production)
• France 2 (FR2) (co-production)
• France 3 Cinéma (co-production)
• Canal+ (participation)
• CinéCinéma (participation)

Distributors

• Pathé (2006) (France) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• L'Etude et la Supervision des Trucages (L'E.S.T.) (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Aerial Camera Systems  helicopter gyrostabilized camera system

Also Known As:

El campamento (Argentina) (cable TV title) [es]

Runtime:

France:95 min | Argentina:95 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Arcachon, Gironde, France

Company:

Alicéléo

Goofs:

Plot holes: In the beginning, his assistant announces Mr. Saint Josse that his wife had called him five times. However, it is revealed later that his wife had dumped him some time before. Since their daughter lived with him, there is no reason why his wife would have called him.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Le camping des foutriquets (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Summer Moon Original Club Mix

you'll never do what common people in camping do

This vehicle chiefly destined to highlight the humorist Franck Dubosc whose irresistible one-man shows partly revolved around his experiences as a camper flocked millions of French viewers in the French theaters (more than about 5 millions). Dubosc was the main attraction and from a popular standpoint, the experience galvanized him to work with the director Fabien Onteniente for his stale "Disco" (2008).

However, from an artistic perspective, "Camping" will never revolutionize French comedy. Actually, it's a comedy in which one never really laughs even if several cues or sequences make smile. I dig the moments when Dubosc introduces his tent and the rules of life to Gérard Lanvin and his wife. The latter comes from an upper-class milieu and because his car broke down, has no other choice than to stay for a few days in a camp with French common people. As Pulp sang in their terrific song: "you'll never do what common people do", that's exactly the same with him. Anyway, the tenet of a man who has to cope with a new world is so hackneyed that Onteniente doesn't try to renew it. His film accumulates the different predictable links of the chain of the story following an ultra-mapped scheme. Ditto for the other campers whose "problems" make me yawn. Too bad for Mathilde Seigner and Claude Brasseur who deserve better than this. At best, Onteniente tries to follow other narrative directions but quickly gives them up.

Lanvin offers a wooden acting and Dubosc gives us his little act but in a more subdued way than in his shows. His aficionados may want to watch this corny piece of work and it's perhaps the category of viewers the film is mostly destined to.