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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" height="99%" valign="top">  When near the backwoods-town of Paris a car driven by 2 brothers crashes, one of them dies, the other, Arthur (Terry Camilleri), is nursed back to health though, but is convinced that their car was actually attacked. Still, the city council (with mayorJohn Meillon) decide to keep him, which shouldn't be too difficult, for Arthur is a man of remarkably little backbone, & furthermore is afraid of driving since this accident & another one from a year ago, where he killed a pedestrian. But the inhabitants of Paris are some mighty queer folks indeed, seemingly obsessed with car accidents, 6 while the older Parisians usually cause accidents of out-of-towners in their vicinity, then salvaging the cars (including injured drivers who the local Doc (Kevin Miles) uses for experiments of the weirder kind), the town-youth likes to have crash-car rides in the streets. But spineless Arthur doesn't seem all that bothered about it, even when he finds out his & his brother's accident was actually caused by the Parisian townfolks he rather has the mayor adopt him (& Arthur is about 30 years of age) & give him a job as parking officer than show his own free will. & when a city-ball is actually brutally attacked by the town's youth in their crazily painted & augmented cars (I liked the spikey Volkswagen best) because the mayor had 2 of their cars burnt, he fights on the side of the Paris townfolks to keep their status quo by doing some crashdriving of his own - ultimately liberating him from his fear of driving. Now, finally, nothing standts between him & his escape from Paris ... except from the deadly traps set at every exit route from the city ... <p> </p> <p>Great absurd movie that thankfully defies every serious interpretation to a certain degree. Many scenes here (& not just those with a score like Ennio Morricone's "Man with the Harmonica" from <b>Once upon a time in the West</b>) are filmed like a Western & the pretty hilarious plot is filmed all straight, making it actually all the funnier. The subtle & weird humour of this film make it hard to believe that the same guy later did such routine Hollywood-drivel as <b>Green Card</b> or <b>Witness</b>, but he did. Both George Miller's<b> Road Warrior </b>& Stephen King's failed <b>Maximum Overdrive</b> were greatly influenced by this movie. <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2003"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>