Camping Cosmos
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36% Rotten Tomatoes Duration | 5.4/10 IMDb 3.1/5 AlloCine Genre Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1996 (1996) Film series La vie sexuelle des Belges Cast Jean-Henri Compere (Jan Bucquoy), Claude Semal (Claude Semal), Fanny Hanciaux (Eve Bucquoy), Noel Godin (Pierre Mertens), Jean-Paul Dermont (M Vandeputte)Similar movies Camping Cosmos and The Sex Life of the Belgians are part of the same movie series Tagline La vie sexuelle des Belges II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Camping Cosmos is a 1996 Belgian satirical comedy film and a sequel to La Vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978, directed by the same director: Jan Bucquoy. It stars Claude Semal, Lolo Ferrari (Miss Vandeputte), Noël Godin (Pierre Mertens), Herman Brusselmans (Herman) and Arno (Harry).
Contents
The movie's tagline is: Revolution, football, beer and frites. It is an unconventional and non-conformist story of the sexual habits of Belgians. Cosmos refers to the eternity of heaven in full contrast with this little campsite where so many people live together with their problems and limited view of the world. It also refers to the Russian cosmonauts who explored space, but who as communists did not believe in an afterworld. And last, the name of this Campsite Cosmos is referring to the sky without limit above the heads of its residents.
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Plot
On a campsite at the Belgian coast - where everybody wants to live in complete freedom and forget the obligations of everyday life - Jan Bucquoy, the delegate of the Ministry of Culture, must bring culture nearer to the working class. He presents things like Bertolt Brecht's play, Mother Courage and Her Children or an interview with the famous writer Pierre Mertens, but the vacationers at this caravan park are more interested in low-brow distractions, like soccer, boxing matches or beauty contests, as well as sexual adventures and temporary romances. One of the actors is dressed up to resemble Tintin.
Production
The production was entirely in the hands of Transatlantic Films and its director Francis De Smet. Because of the refusal of the Flemish Government to raise the capital fund of the equivalent of 200.000 Euro at that time, the film had a substantial delay and was not ready in time for the Cannes Film Festival of 1996. This had consequences for the release later in Belgium. The film could not be released before 1997 in Paris.
Reception
The film was at the origin of a controversy about the policy of Flemish state subsidising of films not at least because of the presence of main actress Lolo Ferrari.
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