Le Comptoir (1999) *

Directed by Sophie Tatischeff. With Mireille Perrier, Maurane and Michel Laprise. This film will try the patience of any viewer. It's neither a comedy nor a drama nor a romance, nor anything else for that matter. Set in a remote corner of Brittany, it's slow, unfocused and infuriatingly tedious. Jumping back and forth between the present and the past, it's like an annoying flea just begging to be squashed.