On Tour

Tournée (2010) is a French road movie you can watch online — director and lead actor Mathieu Amalric shot it after a real encounter with an American neo-burlesque troupe on tour.

Joachim is a former Parisian TV producer who fled to the United States years ago. Now he's back in France, chaperoning a loud, freewheeling group of performers from town to town along the Atlantic coast. The venues are grim, the budgets thin, and Paris — the city he abandoned — keeps getting closer. Behind the high-energy shows: an unpaid contract, a broken deal, and old damage that never healed.

Amalric took Best Director at Cannes 2010 for the film. It's a restless, unglamorous portrait of a man who doesn't know what to do next — not a backstage musical, not a satire of show business. The burlesque acts are genuinely good, which makes the contrast with Joachim's unraveling feel sharper. Stream Tournée (2010) online on iFILM.