Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté, 1988) is a French drama directed by Claude Lelouch — watch it online on iFILM. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Sam Lion, a man who clawed his way from the circus to a business empire, then walked away from all of it at fifty.

Sam fakes his own death and retreats into the forest, done with responsibility. What he doesn't plan for is running into Albert Duvivier, a former employee he once let go. That accidental reunion forces him to rethink what he actually left behind. Richard Anconina plays the younger man — restless, hungry — and the contrast between the two gives the film its real engine.

Lelouch isn't interested in the escape plot so much as the question underneath it: what does a man owe to the life he built? Warm, quietly funny, and never sentimental — this is Belmondo at his most reflective. Stream Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988) online on iFILM.