Overview

Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.

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Cast

Jean-François Stévenin

Simon

Patrick Bouchitey

Dédé

Jean-Pierre Bisson

Gérard

Laura Favali

Nadine

Roland Blanche

l'accoudé

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Félix, le patron du bistrot

Dominique Maurin

le vagabond

Bernard Crombey

le boucher

Patrick Fierry

Jean-Loup

Anne Macina

la femme de la voiture

Marie Mergey

Suzanne, la tante de Simon

Jackie Berroyer

le curé