Comment c'est loin

Orel and Gringe are two friends in their mid-thirties who have spent a decade failing to produce anything. They want to make a rap album, but their lyrics tend toward crude jokes and drinking stories drawn from life in a provincial French town, and they have never managed to complete a single song. When a meeting with their producers goes badly, the pair are given an ultimatum: deliver one finished track within twenty-four hours. Old habits, a fear of failure, pushy friends and relationship troubles all work against them.

Comment c'est loin is a French comedy released in 2015, directed by Christophe Offenstein and co-directed by Orelsan, who also appears as Orel. The screenplay comes from Offenstein, Stéphanie Murat and Orelsan. Gringe plays Gringe, with supporting turns from Seydou Doucouré, Claude Urbiztondo Llarch, Paul Minthe and Sophie de Fürst.

The film was Offenstein's second feature, following Turning Tide in 2013. Made for a modest budget of around 2 million dollars, it found a small but appreciative audience: on IMDb it holds 6.9 out of 10 from roughly 2,300 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 7 out of 10 from some 695 votes, a narrower sample that is slightly more favourable.