Martin and Leonie, this is a perfect portrait and lecture to so many people in power too busy and conceited to look at this crap, as they would call it...
They could lern so much, if they would just take the time, watch and listen to the message this movie convey to us...
The way they gradually take away the gayness, the equilibrium from him by cutting him back to a size bearable to the community and society - in their opinion!
Gladly enough he had a cousin to get him back to his property and rights - the right to live and to be what he wants to be... even doing a service to the community... Integrating him into society, making his skills and eagerness to prevent waste, collect and sort out things useful to the community would be a win-win-solution ... this is what I mean by setting the incentives right in society!
Gladly he didn't live earlier - end thirties, beginning forties of the last century e.g. falling into the hands of the invaders from his neighbours to the north-east...
Knowing he is back there collecting, even less cheerful than in the first part of the movie, makes one hope and believe in the future of world society...
Great work, wonderful message - give him a hug from me next time you meet up with him!

He is such a wonderful man. I admire everything about him.

I am currently writing a dissertation on when collecting becomes hoarding, and exploring different ways in which people hoard and collect. This man is so unique that i feel that i have to include him into my work. I will credit you and the film.

thanks for showing everyone this. I would love to hear about what he is doing now.

This is a beautiful portrait of a unique indiviual. I know a man very much like this one personally and think what he does is charming, harmless and the things he does are more meaningful wholisically than many other things that ordinary people fill their days doing. He too has suffered disputes with his local council over 'collecting'.
What right does any indiviual have to tell Christain what he can and cant have on his own land.
Treatment of this kind should be sympathised with much more and publicied.
KEEP COLLECTING

I love this guy. I love the way you present him. I would like to speak to the mayor about how they treat him. Surely there is a better way.

i live in la roche sur le buis, near of the christian'house. a friend from buis les baronnies haves showed me this video, now we take another look on christian.we have always respected him, not everibody of course because he is the kind of guy that some people just can't try to stop laughing when they see him, and when we were at school he was one of our favorite subject of laugh!i remember that my father and his friend told me that when they wanted to find some thing special they came to visit him and buy the thing you find everything you want at christian'home!today, he is still walking around and collect thing, some time you can see him and talk a little. for us,this man have no age and he is not weak!