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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

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Bonus Materials

• NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
• Archival interviews with the cast
• Trailer
• **More extras TBD
• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
• **Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film and archival writing (**TBD)
• Limited edition of 2000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Sales Points

• 'Fill 'er Up with Super' is ranked #71 in Time Out's list of the 100 greatest French films
• From acclaimed director Alain Cavalier, César Award winner for Best Film and Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987
• The film stars Patrick Bouchitey (Cold Moon), Étienne Chicot (36 Fillette) and Xavier Saint-Macary (Confidentially Yours) and Béatrice Agenin (Amélia)

Press Quotes

'Fill 'er Up With Super' feels incredibly fresh, authentic and uncensored; made like a shoestring documentary (with the director, camera and sound guys squeezed into the car's backseat), it's a heady, poignant artefact of '70s filmmaking.

     —Emmanuel Chirache, Time Out

Fill 'er Up with Super develops a relationship with its audience in much that same way as its characters do with each other.

     —GREG WALTON, Movieline Online

Technical merits are solid and the supplements very enjoyable. Recommended.

     —JEFFREY KAUFFMAN, Blu-ray.com

fascinating piece of independent 'guerilla filmmaking'-style cinema

     —GARY TOOZE, DVD Beaver