The film's named Mischka, but the character with the nickname is just one of equally important characters.

At one moment (about halfway through) it seemed like all the characters were a bit mad. But they sorted themselves out afterwords.

So, basically, there's a group of unwanted, unloved people who accidentally got together and became friends for a while.

A cameo role of Johnny Hallyday as himself.

The other reviewers really didn't like the film. It wasn't the case with me. I was recovering from illness at that point, had a lot of time on my hands, patience as well, and I was intrigued by it. Liked it, to some extent.

Let's try to be "objective". This movie is one of "my" worst cinema experience in my whole life. Full of easy clichés about french country(it takes place in southwestern France, where i come from, and i can tell you it's painful...), stupid and simply ugly, It doesn't deserve any attention from anyone who has a little taste. What made me even more angry is that it's been acclaimed as "the best french movie of 2002" by lots of critics...

The introduction itself is a "pure" one : an old granpa (Mischka), wearing a stinky night-gown, is almost deliberately left hanging in a gas station by is redneck of a son (here we call them "beaufs"). Just like a dog. He's been so far precisely carried on to vacations in the truck of the car. The family leaves and realize Mischka is missing. His son decides not to go back, cause he's sure the old geezer will find his way alone... If that's not a "good" start i don't know what it is... If it was possible to give a 0 to a single movie in all the IMDb, i would choose this one without any hesitation. I hope i remained "objective" enough, though... my apologies to those who liked this one.