Overview: Two 25-year-old lads have to drive a Chevrolet from Lille to Cannes. As they fill up with gas in Paris, they’re joined by two other guys. Each has his own reasons for being in the car. For all of them, this road movie is an opportunity to reflect on their lives and ambitions.

Blu-ray Verdict: From acclaimed director Alain Cavalier, César Award winner for Best Film and Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987, Fill ’er Up with Super is ranked #71 in Time Out’s list of the 100 greatest French films, and rightly so, in my humble opinion.

Klouk (Bernard Crombey) is a car salesman who has to miss a family holiday to deliver a luxury Chevrolet station wagon to his boss’ wealthy client. He decides to take his friend Philippe (Xavier Saint-Macary) along with him for the ride across the length of France from Lille to the Cote d’Azur.

On the way they give a lift to hitchhiker Charles (Etienne Chicot) who also brings along his friend Daniel (Patrick Bouchitey). A buddy road movie that came together from genuine friendship and developed throughout the months-long script workshop, giving the film a casual and naturalistic quality that pre-dates Richard Linklater’s similar approaches by some decade, Fill ’Er Up with Super is one of many touching road movie comedies about youth in a line of classics.

A meditation on friendship and masculinity, often funny, even a little offbeat, and with a good, solid cast carefully taking care of the script throughout; one which includes Etienne Chicot - who wrote the end credits music, and the wonderful Patrick Bouchitey, who made the very same year the extraordinary la meilleure façon de marcher - Fill ’er Up With Super is now presented here as a most glorious new 2K restoration of the film from the original negative and is, once more, a gleaming cinematic jewel to behold of the highest order.

NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
Archival interviews with the cast
Trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
Limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film and archival writing
Limited edition of 2000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings