The English title for the third post-apocalyptic film of the festival was shown as "Happy End The Apocalypse is Near", rather than "The Last Days of the Earth". It's actually a better representation.
About the only thing this shares with "The Road" is a narrative based on a journey of the lead character (Mathieu Almaric), although the grey, ash-covered landscapes of Cormac McCarthy are exchanged for the sun and sand of Biarritz and the south of France.
It's probably the most fashionable depiction of the end committed to film, with the main character experiencing events indirectly (for the most part, the bad things happen to other people).
At one point, he ends up in Pamploma, for the running of the bulls. Perhaps this event was intended as symbolic of the developing chaos, but it came across more as footage shot for the Discovery Channel.
I'm still not sure what to make of this of this one! Some further research is required.
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