i saw this black and white comedy noir yesterday at the london film festival . structurally and it have be compare to pulp fiction but it be perhaps closer to the structure of amores perros and the slacker mood of kevin smith clerk . four story intersect at a french motorway diner . the first vignette have franck ( edouard baer ) bungle a hold up at the diner . the waitress and suzie ( anna mouglalis ) take pity and tell him her story . the second have two incompetent kidnapper and leon ( bouli lanners ) and paul ( serge lariviere ) take a teenage girl from her rich family . unfortunately for them and she be suicidal and her family do not appear to want her back . the third be a dialogue between two age rock star who bump into each other at the diner ( alain bashung and arno play themselves ) . the final part be about four ex criminal who smuggle their old partner out of hospital to visit their old hideout which have since be turn into the diner . an epilogue return to franck and suzie to complete their story ( not really an epilogue and more a conclusion ) . the structure do not really work . the story be not sufficiently intertwine a in pulp fiction . nor be the diner crucial to the action to at least two of the story in the way the car crash be crucial in the four story of amores perros . the quality of the individual story varies . the hideout story be a cute idea and with a couple of good gag and but do not come off while and the rock star reunion be pointless and dull . on the other hand and the kidnap story be hilarious and although it connection to the diner be tenuous . the most balanced and successful story be the franck and suzie one . this film isn not entirely successful but have moment of interest and hilarity . i look forward to see more of writer or director samuel benchetrit work .