Les Babas Cool


Les Babas Cool is a French comedy film directed by François Leterrier. It was released in 1981. The film is also known under the alternate title Quand tu seras débloqué… fais-moi signe !

Plot

Antoine Bonfils is a household appliance salesman. His car breaks down close to a farm. Looking for help, he figures out that the people there are living in a commune, like hippies.

Cast

The term “baba-cool”, also spelled “baba cool” or “babacool‘, is French for “hippie”.
The film was shot between June 18 and August 3, 1981, mainly in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region: Forcalquier, Gréoux-les-Bains, Manosque, Reillanne and Simiane-la-Rotonde.
The film was not a box-office success, ending the year with just under 500,000 admissions3, half as many as François Leterrier's previous film starring Clavier, Je vais craquer, which ended the year with a million admissions.