Such is France’s collective passion for the art of râler that had “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” not exemplified the spirit of the French Revolution, there is every chance Audiard’s mission statement would have swept in and claimed the title of France’s National Motto instead.
The image of the grumpy French râleur with his outward disdain for life as we know it is as much a timeworn cliché as the beret-hatted Parisian bicycling through Montmartre, baguette tucked underarm. But while the modern Francophone will rightly reject these stereotypes (and possibly tell you to go shove your baguette up… well, a bodily crevice that might prevent you returning home from the boulangerie à velo); there are few who could deny the French love to râler.