He is also a travelling IT man. Through watching Extension du Domaine de La Lutte I have been drawn into something in French Cinema that I have seen emerging as some kind of a portmanteau genre lately. For the French to emulate the British is sacrilege to say the least. The French have conspicuously been mixing the road movie with Black Comedy of late. One wonders if this is the state of the nation or if it is the French Cinema attempting to come up with new ideas.
Extension is closer to the latter rather than the recent knife-throwing road show.
What does seem conspicuous though is that the French are currently represented as being very miserable. Extension adds to this cross-genre, though the emphasis appears to be more on the bleak. That s because the humour is extremely dry and at times very too dark for its own good. There s one scene in the film, however, where the Black Humour becomes very less Comedy but much more disturbing. The sensitive one dances but is spurned by every young girl he fancied.