A Spot of Bother (2009) on Netflix
Jean-Paul Muret, retired, fills his days building a shed and fretting about his health. Then he notices a mark on his hip, and his daughter's plan to marry meets his disapproval.
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Plot summary
Jean-Paul Muret has retired to a house outside Paris with his wife Anne, where he passes the time building a shed and worrying about his health. Anne is involved with David, a man who once worked alongside Jean-Paul. Their son Mathieu is in a relationship with Olivier, and their daughter Cathie, divorced and raising five-year-old Hugo, shares her life with Philippe, who runs a small firm of bouncers. A mark that Jean-Paul discovers on his hip sends him to a doctor, who calls it discoid eczema; Jean-Paul believes he has skin cancer. Cathie and Philippe announce that they mean to marry, and Jean-Paul cannot hide his disapproval.
Cast
- Jolhan Martinas Hugo
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Spot of Bother (2009)
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- Producer Yves Marmion at UGC sent actor Michel Blanc Mark Haddon's novel hoping Blanc would direct, but Blanc turned the job down because of similarities to his own film Summer Things and instead wrote five versions of the screenplay, which Alfred Lot revised into the shooting script.
- Director Alfred Lot shot the film in CinemaScope for a "chic and elegant" feel befitting the upper-middle-class family, and dropped his plan for more hand-held camera work in favour of lots of dolly shots that he felt fitted the spirit of the film.
