The Man Who Saw the Bear: Pierre Richard’s comedy doesn’t quite tell a story; rather, it connects a series of small episodes set in the same Southern French village, centered mostly on an older fisherman and a younger man with Asperger’s syndrome, and how they relate to each other, their families, and their friends in the village. The movie chooses to be quirky for quirkiness’ sake, and the result is, by design, not insightful and, probably not by design, not very funny. Richard plays the elder, a man often lost in his own mind, but who cares for those around him, in a serviceable performance. Timi-Joy Marbot plays his young neighbour in another middling performance. Aesthetically, the film is likewise unremarkable and unmemorable.