L'Art modeste

Ever since he was eighteen, the highly unusual collector Bernard Belluc has been gathering together in his home all the everyday objects which haunted his childhood. Today he is 45 years old. There is no room left in his house. The four hundred square metres have been overrun by empty washing powder packets, toy plastic soldiers, yellowing advertisements, and tangles of key-rings lying in biscuit tins... Bernard stands alone in the midst of this accumulation, worthy of a Prevert-style inventory, until one day he meets the artist Hervé Di Rosa. Their friendship leads to the creation of the first Museum of Modest Art. This film is an often humorous portrayal of Bernard's obsession, which will give birth to the first Modest Art Museum in the water tower of Palavas-les-Flots near Montpellier.