Au Fabuleux bistrot de Jeannine tells a story of love and gentle madness between a bistro owner and her customers. A formidable great-grandmother with vigorous, comical retorts, her counter one-liners could be written by Michel Audiard.
It is also a portrait of a woman both strong and fragile, right up to the final evening at the Café du coin. A tribute to these small places of speech and listening, to those who keep them open, to their diversity, their freedom, their humanity.
Author of some twenty books on cafés, Pierrick Bourgault filmed this feature-length film while immersed for three years, "with love and a pocket camera", that is to say on a zero budget and with a perfect carbon footprint!
Jury Prize at the "Silence, ça touille" Festival (Locronan) running time: 76'