As every year, Bruno uses the agriculture exhibition to drown his sorrows in alcohol: by trailing his way from one stand to another, he does France’s wine route without even leaving the exhibition. But this year, his father Jean is at the exhibition to present his champion bull and decides to take things in hand. He convinces Mike, a young taxi driver, to take them on a road trip along the real wine route, in hopes of reconnecting with Bruno and helping him regain control of his life...

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The enfants terribles of French-Belgian cinema are back. The legendary duo behind Louise Michel, Mammuth and Le Grand Soir, directors/screenwriters Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern are reunited with Gérard Depardieu and Benoît Poelvoorde for yet another story about magnificent alcoholic losers. This pleasant but not exceptional road movie is a messy kind of ode to the marginal life. The pair never really moves outside of their now well-known framework, and Saint Amour has a few great moments (especially those with Gérard Depardieu, who is particularly moving and spot-on) without being fully complete or as strong as the sum of its parts.