Just Like Brothers

Just Like Brothers (2012)

Comme des frères

Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.

Date of release
2012-11-21
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (268)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Hugo Gélin

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Aix-en-Provence

Just Like Brothers is a 2012 French comedy film written, directed and produced by Hugo Gélin.

Production

At the end of the 2000s, Hugo Gelin planned to make a film but shortly before the shooting started, a distributor withdrew from the project. He then created a production company named Zazi films and started to prepare three movies, including Comme des frères. The story is partly inspired by the friendship between the 30-year-old film director and two of his friends, who are 20 and 40 years old.

Comme des frères is dedicated to Jocelyn Quivrin, one of Hugo Gelin's best friends, who died while the film was being written. After this event, Hugo Gelin decided to make this film a comedy.

The amusement park scene was shot in September 2011 in Nigloland in the French departement of Aube. The park is renamed "Fifouland" in the film. Amongst others, scenes were shot in Corsica, in Aix-en-Provence, in Paris or even in Germany.

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