'Le Plein de Super' (also known as 'Fill 'er Up with Super') is a classic 1976 French comedy /drama directed by Alain Cavalier.

Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is a car salesman who has to miss a family holiday to deliver a luxury Chevrolet station wagon to his boss' wealthy client. He decides to take his friend Philippe (Xavier Saint-Macary) along with him for the ride across the length of France from Lille to the Cote d'Azur. On the way they give a lift to hitchhiker Charles (Etienne Chicot) who also brings along his friend Daniel (Patrick Bouchitey). A buddy road movie that came together from genuine friendship and developed throughout the months-long script workshop giving the film a casual and naturalistic quality that pre-dates Richard Linklater's similar approaches by some decade, Fill 'Er Up with Super is one of many touching road movie comedies about youth in a line of classics. A meditation on friendship and masculinity, it was voted one of the greatest of all French films by Time Out Paris which described it as a precious secret, one which could be likened to a documentary, yet in its more surreal moments retains a freshness larger than life.

Special Features:
- 2K restoration of the film from the original negative
- Original uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Three interview short films with the cast directed by Cavalier: My Wife Lives in Fear, with Etienne Chicot (2011, 4 mins), It's Full, with Bernard Crombey (2011, 6 mins) and The King of Baby Bottles, with Patrick Bouchitey (2011, 8 mins)
- Friends First and Foremost: An interview with Bernard Crombey - in this video interview the star discusses his work on the film, his collaborators and his career (2019, 28 mins)
- An appreciation of Fill 'Er Up with Super by Cahiers du Cinema deputy editor Charlotte Garson
- Newly translated English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters

Media

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Bonus Materials

• Friends First and Foremost: An interview with Bernard Crombey - in this video interview the star discusses his work on the film, his collaborators and his career (2019, 28 mins)
• Three interview short films with the cast directed by Cavalier: My Wife Lives in Fear with Etienne Chicot, Bernard Crombey and Patrick Bouchitey (2011, 4 mins), It’s a Full House with Bernard Crombey (2011, 6 mins) and The King of the Bottle with Patrick
• An appreciation of Fill ‘Er Up with Super by Cahiers du Cinema deputy editor Charlotte Garson (2022)
• Trailer
• Newly translated English subtitles
• NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Bernard Crombey
•       Etienne Chicot
•       Patrick Bouchitey
•       Xavier Saint-Macary

Director: Alain Cavalier

Additional Details

Label: Radiance

Genre: Comedy

Run Time: 97 mins

Region: 1

Release Date: 10/15/24

UPC: 760137164654