A Ticket to Space

The French public cannot see why so much money goes to the space program, so the government answers with a scratch-card game called "Le ticket pour l'espace," run with the French space center. The prize is two civilians sent up to the European orbital station, and the winners are Stéphane Cardoux (Kad Merad) and Romain Beaulieu (Olivier Baroux). Éric Lartigau builds the comedy on a plain question: what happens when ordinary people are handed a place among the stars.