In the Belgian comedy Mobile Home, two underachievers in their late 20s, decide to move away from their parents. They move into a Fiat version of a Winnebago so they can tour the world. But their big move isn’t really that independent because they park the new home on wheels within an easy drive of their parents. The question in Mobile Home is whether either of them will catch even a whiff of adult responsibility or whether they will continue denying that it is time to get a real job.
This Belgian story is smarter than most Hollywood bromances, but nothing we haven’t seen before. A nice little festival film.
I saw Mobile Home at the San Francisco Film Society’s French Cinema Now series. The trailer is in French without subtitles.