Images from Cockles And Muscles (Crustaces & Coquillages)
Select thumbnail for full image gallery.
Cockles And Muscles (Crustaces & Coquillages) (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, moderate drug use and sex
- Run time: 1 hour 35 mins
- Language: French
- Genre: Romantic Comedy
- Release date: 14th April 2006
- Starring: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Gilbert Melki, Jean-Marc Barr
- Directed by: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel
- Official Website: www.cocklesandmuscles.com
- Distributor: Peccadillo Pictures
Plot Synopsis
For summer vacation, Marc takes his wife Béatrix and their two children to the seaside house of his youth. The Mediterranean wind blows, the sea churns, and the heat of summer stokes their desires. Their daughter Laura, 19, has a rendezvous with her biker boyfriend, and their son Charly, 17, roams with his best friend Martin, who is in love with him.
Béatrix is sensitive to the undisclosed, erotically charged atmosphere that exists between the boys, and imagines that her son is gay. When Béatrix's lover Mattheu shows up, and Marc`s old flame appears, complications escalate and the vacation collapses into hilarious chaos.
‘Cockles and Muscles’ is the fourth film from the Martineau and Ducastel team, and it carries on the themes of honesty, freedom and love explored in all their work.