Film

Pot Luck

Name: Pot Luck
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2014
Cast: Pablo Pauly, William Lebghil, Côme Levin, Loïc Renard, Pauline Bayle

Buddy comedy
Light-hearted

A brisk French comedy about a man evicted by his girlfriend and left holding an enormous, illegal cannabis plant. He enlists his flaky childhood friend to smuggle it across Paris. It's a zippy, affectionate romp that treats its absurd premise with genuine warmth, finding comedy in loyalty, desperation, and the specific chaos of moving contraband through a city that doesn't care.

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy a short, scruffy comedy where a ridiculous errand becomes a quietly tender buddy story, with the kind of deadpan that lets the absurdity do the work.

Skip it if you want a plot that builds toward something big, since this 19-minute short is mostly a loose, meandering trip across town with a lot of small, low-stakes bickering.

What it asks of you: Very little time, and a relaxed pace. You settle into a single summer morning and its wandering conversations, with no need to track complicated characters or backstory.

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