Robert Mitchum est mort

.....It can't be much of a trick!" Mitchum is quoted in an early insert about his famous Rin-Tin-Tin sentence;but he is not mentioned once afterward ,which gives the movie a surrealistic feel.

An offbeat road movie,featuring Olivier Gourmet as a lousy manager and Pablo Nicomedes as an insomniac actor who mumbles more than he speaks .Both are in search of a director ,who ,they think,can take them to fame and fortune.

Frankie Pastor ,the would be thespian ,is rather limited since he can only play one scene in a movie made by their idol/director called "fatal angel" ;but to find him,they have to travel to the Arctic Circle where a film festival takes place ;but the further they travel ,the harder it is to meet this ghostly figure.

The ending might be a justification of the title :"I invest my money in oil" says Sarineff :because ,as Mrs Desmond in "Sunset blvd" said :"pictures got small" or because as M.Mitchum himself reportedly claimed :"The stars today are just masturbation images"?

An excellent road movie with a quirky cast, an interesting story, cool soundtrack and very good cinematography. Some of the scenes I found myself wondering how anyone could not only conceive of this but also communicate it so beautifully in film. An insomniac French actor and his pill popping manager on their way to a film-fest in the Arctic Circle to audition for a legendary American director in a stolen car with a stowaway rockabilly musician in the trunk (Whew!). Throw in a cast-off femme from a Fellini movie and you have the makings of one very funny independent film. This movie though is not for everyone's taste. Could have easily been a tribute to Jim Jarmusch as it reminded me so much of one of his movies. All in all, it was one fun ride.

The directors made two films at the same time: their first and their last.