A good movie

Even though French comedies are sometimes massively successful, I’m not a huge fan of the genre and, for example, I still have to see ‘Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis’ which is, just behind ‘Titanic’, the biggest box-office success ever in France. So, with this in mind, I wasn’t really expecting much from this flick as it seemed to be another typical comedy but, to be honest, I thought it was not bad at all and actually quite entertaining. Back in the 80’s, Francis Veber made a trilogy of highly successful comedies starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard (‘La chèvre’, ‘Les compères’, ‘Les fugitifs’) and, after all these years, Veber was finally working with Depardieu again. Basically, it is a rather straightforward comedy dealing with our prejudices towards gay people and even though it was nothing deep or groundbreaking, I thought it was actually quite efficient and rather fun to behold. On top of that, beside Gérard Depardieu, there was a pretty neat cast (Daniel Auteuil, Thierry Lhermitte, Michèle Laroque, Jean Rochefort) and they all delivered some decent performances. To conclude, even though it wasn’t really amazing, I thought it was a solid comedy and it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.

7/10