Fill 'er Up With Super (BLU-RAY)
'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. Limited Edition 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 - Limited Edition booklet featuring new writing on the film
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 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 decades. A meditation on friendship and masculinity, this was one of the last films Alain Cavalier made before approaching more experimental forms of filmmaking but prefigures his later breaking down of fiction and documentary barriers with the freewheeling approach of Fill 'er up with Super .
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Archival interviews with the cast
- More extras TBC
- Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
- Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film and archival writing to be confirmed
- Limited edition of 2000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings