Le Diner De Cons
1999
Every Wednesday night a few guys have a meal together. There is a game coupled with the meal: each one of them has to bring an "idiot". The game consists in making the idiots talk about their ideas and passions so that the hosts can have a good laugh. At the end they will choose the "idiot of the evening". One of the hosts has .. Read more
| Starring | Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prevost |
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| Director | Francis Veber |
| Genres | Comedy, World Cinema |
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Le Diner De Cons
Every Wednesday night a few guys have a meal together. There is a game coupled with the meal: each one of them has to bring an "idiot". The game consists in making the idiots talk about their ideas and passions so that the hosts can have a good laugh. At the end they will choose the "idiot of the evening". One of the hosts has invited his idiot home so they could go to the dinner together, but unfortunately he gets a severe pain in his back due to an accident that day and can't go to the "meal of idiots". Even worse is the fact that the idiot tries to help him all the time, and naturally does everything wrong and aggravates every situation.
| Starring | Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Vandernoot, Catherine Frot |
|---|---|
| Director | Francis Veber |
| Studio | PATHE DISTRIBUTION |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 17 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 26 Sep 2005 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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Despite frequently betraying its stage origins, writer/director Francis Veber's splutteringly funny farce — a box-office hit in France — is a model of snowball comedy. From the moment publisher Thierry Lhermitte agrees to exhibit matchstick model-maker Jacques Villeret at one of his clique's “idiot dinners”, his idyllic existence begins to fall apart as this balding bundle of good intentions dismantles his deceptions with devastating artlessness. Lhermitte is admirably selfless as the despicable straight man, but Villeret has fashioned a masterly creation: a buffoonish descendant of Stan Laurel, Inspector Clouseau and Norman Wisdom whose every word and gesture have catastrophic consequences. One can only wait in trepidation for the imminent American remake.
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Enjoyable, expertly constructed, cruel farce of misunderstandings in which a sophisticated man's life is unravelled by a well-meaning fool.
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35 out of 42 people found this review helpful
One for the subtitle-haters
For those of you who can't bare the though of having to watch a foreign film, and having to 'concentrate' on the subtitles, then get this DVD out.
It's a simple, but very well written comedy. When the French do these films well, they blow Hollywood out of the water.
Go on, take a chance, read those subtitles, and see what you've been missing ! -
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
wonderfully intelligent fun
I saw this years ago... and still remember some of the dialogues in detail, including the faces of the various actors...
A wonderful odd 'Effel Tower' as well, -
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