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The Dinner Game (Le Diner De Cons) – Foreign film Review

Brochant think you have found the idiot of François Pignon, a frumpy auditor, tax friendly with a talent for making scale models of famous monuments of nothing but matches.

After sustaining a back injury, Brochant is trapped in his home with Pignon talkative. From there, the night takes an unexpected turn when Brochant wife Christine (Alexandra Vandernoot) decides to leave him.

Distraught and wanting to win her back, Brochant is reluctantly turning to his idiot dinner to help. However, plans go awry simple as the situation gradually snowballs into a series of misadventures involving Brochant's mistress (Catherine Frot), his best friend, Leblanc (Francis Huster), and Lucien is co-auditor Pignon (Daniel Prevost).

Comments: The Dinner Game was originally a play written by Francis Veber, who also directed this adaptation of the film. Veber later directed the acclaimed French film The Closet (Le Placard), and his style of comedy is certainly evident in this case. Dinner Game is a very entertaining story, and often hilarious commentary that is also a background of friendship, the lengths they go in search of love, and the extreme measures we take to escape from suffering.

The convoluted plot is likely to remain absorbed, and the plot twists are quite long, unpredictable and very funny.

The characters are very well designed and the chemistry between the actors as the cast is great theater brings a strong power in the mix. Most memorable of all is the highly expressive and Jacques Villeret Pignon with good intentions, but dense, which, despite its simple nature, is full of psychological complexity.

This is a smart and stylish comedy seems aimed at some of the same types of intelligent people who openly criticizes. It is a lesson of humility that never becomes moralistic and an analysis of leisure the strange link between suffering and love and humor.

Who wants this movie: This movie is for people smart they are not afraid to laugh at themselves, and who understand that being smart is not everything (and certainly no guarantee of happiness). The mood affects many common themes, so even if you have not been exposed to many foreign films, The Dinner Game should definitely get up on you.

(3 1 / 2 of 4 stars)

Made in: France
Language: French
Director: Francis Veber
Starring: Jacques Villeret, Thierry Lhermitte, Alexandra Vandernoot, Francis Huster, Daniel Prevost, Catherine Frot

Year: 1998

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