Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs. Read more
| Starring | Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Marie-Anne Chazel, Michel Blanc |
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| Director | Patrice Leconte |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
| Starring | Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Marie-Anne Chazel, Michel Blanc, Martin Lamotte, Bruno Moynot, Gerard Jugnot, Michel Creton, Thierry Lhermitte, Dominique Lavanant, Christian Clavier, Guy Laporte, Pascale Deneu |
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| Director | Patrice Leconte |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 27 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | French |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 17 Sep 2007 Production year: 1978 |
| Format | DVD |
Patrice Laconte is one of my favourite directors and I can recommend virtually everything else in his filmography but this one is a very early work and is truly dreadful. It lacks virtually everything that makes much French cinema and Laconte's work so wonderful: wit, style, grace, humour, sensitivity, depth, originality thought-provoking ideas and scenarios - none of that here at all. Thank goodness that Patrice Laconte was given further chances to develop his art! I wouldn't even recommend this as a curiosity for fellow Laconte fans.
Oh dear, there is nothing worse than yesterday's 'racy' sex comedy... a sort of French version of a creaky old Ray Cooney farce, of vintage fashion and sociological interest only, set in one of those 1970s holiday camps, albeit on some Polynesian French former colony with thinly-veiled racist attitudes. Half-expected Barbara Windsor to ping her bra straps at me...