Le dîner de cons (1998)
(The Dinner Game)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 80m
Director: Francis Veber
Cast: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster
Synopsis:
Well-to-do Parisian executives have a monthly dinner to which each of them invites the biggest idiot he can find. On the night he thinks he has found a winner, a publisher cricks his back and finds himself at the mercy of his guest in his own apartment.
Review:
Archetypal French comedy in which a situation is milked for all it's worth with no care for disguising its theatrical roots, and in which various characters follow their destinies with delicious inevitability. The handling is accomplished in all departments. Probably the finest illustration of comedic hubris ever committed to screen.
(The Dinner Game)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 80m
Director: Francis Veber
Cast: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster
Synopsis:
Well-to-do Parisian executives have a monthly dinner to which each of them invites the biggest idiot he can find. On the night he thinks he has found a winner, a publisher cricks his back and finds himself at the mercy of his guest in his own apartment.
Review:
Archetypal French comedy in which a situation is milked for all it's worth with no care for disguising its theatrical roots, and in which various characters follow their destinies with delicious inevitability. The handling is accomplished in all departments. Probably the finest illustration of comedic hubris ever committed to screen.
(The Dinner Game)
Country: FR
Technical: col/scope 80m
Director: Francis Veber
Cast: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Francis Huster
Synopsis:
Well-to-do Parisian executives have a monthly dinner to which each of them invites the biggest idiot he can find. On the night he thinks he has found a winner, a publisher cricks his back and finds himself at the mercy of his guest in his own apartment.
Review:
Archetypal French comedy in which a situation is milked for all it's worth with no care for disguising its theatrical roots, and in which various characters follow their destinies with delicious inevitability. The handling is accomplished in all departments. Probably the finest illustration of comedic hubris ever committed to screen.