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Wikipedia article
'Cookies' (, "The Galettes of Pont-Aven") is a French drama film directed by Jol Sria.
Plot
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a middle-aged travelling umbrella salesman from Saumur who lives a sexless and unhappy married life with his puritan wife (Gisle Grimm) and two children. Painting is the only true passion of Henri but he also has an affection for female buttocks. One night, on the roads of Brittany he hits a boar with his car. mile (Bernard Fresson), a rude and carefree painter who lives in a cottage near Riec-sur-Belon meets Henri and invites him to stay at his house while the car is being fixed. Henri falls in love with mile's Canadian live-in girlfriend Angela (Dolores McDonough) who draws Henri's attention with her beautiful buttocks. Henri and Angela leave mile after a violent confrontation and move to Pont-Aven, 'the city of painters'. Angela encourages Henri to continue his life as a painter and he sees this as an opportunity to leave his earlier life behind. However, one day Angela suddenly leaves him and disappears, and Henri becomes a drunkard, butt of jokes in the town, and a painter unable to sell a single painting. Marie (Jeanne Goupil), the teenage maid working at the pension Henri stays, is apparently in love with him but he seems to neglect her because his mind is too occupied with Angela. However, at a kermesse where the two sing 'Kenavo' by Thodore Botrel, Henri faces his true feelings for Marie. He finds pure love and a pair of beautiful buttocks in her and decides to make a new start in his life. Eventually, Henri and Marie begin to live together and are seen happily selling galettes and toffee apples on a Nvez beach.
Cast
* Jean-Pierre Marielle as Henri Serin
* Claude Piplu as Monsieur Loyan, the pilgrim
* Romain Bouteille as the monk
* Jeanne Goupil as Marie Gudc
* Dolores McDonough as Angela
* Andra Ferrol as Madame Liquois
* Bernard Fresson as mile
* Martine Ferrire as the pilgrim's sister
* Gisle Grimm as Madame Serin
* Dominique Lavanant as Marie Pape
* Nathalie Drivet as Ida
* Agns Van Waerbeke as the naked girl
Accolades
References
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