Gérald le Conquérant

Gérald, a forty-year-old loser from a provincial French town, wakes up with one thought: today he will become a conqueror. His plan is simple—to win the heart of his new colleague, Marie, using advice from an 80s self-help book. Each attempt spirals into a series of ridiculous situations: from dueling with a supermarket automatic door to an impromptu knight's tournament on a children's playground. While his bartender friend Paul tries to talk sense into him and his skeptical sister Sophie just laughs, Gérald stubbornly follows his absurd path. The film turns an ordinary day into an epic comedy about self-discovery through the most unexpected and hilarious failures, where the main battle is not with the outside world, but with one's own illusions.