The King of Escape

Year: 2009

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: French

Director: Alain Guiraudie

ComedyAdventure

Armand Lacourtade, 43, makes his living selling farm equipment in rural France but has grown weary of his homosexual routine. When he meets a spirited young woman named Curly, his world shifts. Pursued by her disapproving parents and the police, they risk everything to nurture a forbidden romance, forming an unlikely partnership. Yet Armand wonders whether this new life truly fulfills the dreams he once held.

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