Holidays At All Cost

[Plays Oct. 22 and 28 as part of the 28th Austin Film Festival that runs Oct. 21-28; for information, log on to www.austinfilmfestival.com.] When a hardworking Frenchman (Oumar Diaw) takes his beautiful, artistic, OCD-afflicted wife (Donia Eden) and young son (Swann Nguma-Torre) on a long overdue vacation at a resort in the South of France that they cannot afford in Stevan Lee Mraovitch's award-winning, entertaining, hilarious, delightful, well-acted, unpredictable, 105-minute comedy, he makes a secret pact with his longtime friend (Benjamin Garnier) who owns the resort to work a few hours a day in exchange for their stay but he then finds himself resorting to menial labor, such as picking up roadkill, performing massages, and teaching a nude yoga class, while the duplicitous friend concocts more shenanigans as he tries to seduce his unsuspecting wife.
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