So, Louise is a big chunk of taciturn woman who can’t read, never drinks and makes her dinner out of the pigeons she catches on her balcony with mouse traps. The day she - and dozens of her co-workers - find themselves on the dole because the boss ran away with the factory overnight, she candidly suggests hiring a hitman. Naturally they all agree. Michel is the ‘pro’ they hire, an inept (self-)deceptive loser with a soft spot for star-mercenary Bob Denard; incapable of fulfilling the dirty job himself, he asks Jennifer, his dying, chemo-bald cousin to do it instead. But in our globalized economy, the real culprits are difficult to locate, so the duo embark on a vengeance spree that involves more kamikaze missions for moribund helpers, and takes them from Brussels to the isle of Jersey. Somewhere between Monty Python and the Cohen brothers, Louise provides wicked political satire with side-splittingly funny moments and a dose of Dadaist poetry. This is also one the ballsy-est, most un-PC movies around; an uncompromising film that never flinches from ‘sensitive’ topics, instead confronting them head on with joyful irreverence. Cathartic and invigorating!/NV

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Directed by Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Delépine (France 2008) with Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners. French OV with German subtitles. Starts September 24