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Every day, Allociné recommends a film to (re) see on TV. Tonight: one of the best French comedies of all time.
If you are told “there was a trinket”, you have the ref? This is obviously the unbeatable Francis Veber dinner! Released at the cinema in 1998, this cult comedy brought to the screen by a Créduule Jacques Villeret and a Thierry Lhermitte Cynique is a monument to French cinema.
Every Wednesday, Pierre Brochant and his friends organize a dinner where everyone must bring an idiot. Whoever found the most spectacular is declared victorious. Tonight, Brochant Exult, it is certain to have found a rare pearl, a world class idiot: François Pignon, accountant at the Ministry of Finance and passionate about models reduced in matches. What he ignores is that a gable has the art of triggering disasters.
This synopsis, we all know him by heart, like his colorful casting: Jacques Villeret In irresistible idiot, Thierry Lhermitte And her back pain to fall on the ground, Francis Huster and his legendary laughter, Daniel Prévost and his wise eye, without forgetting the performance of Catherine Frot and Alexandra Vandernoot.
“It's your husband's idiot”
Noted 4.2 out of 5, this emblematic comedy of Francis Veber won no less than three César: Best actor for the huge Jacques VilleretBest actor in a supporting role for Daniel Prévostand best original scenario or adaptation for the director.
That's not all, the film also received two prizes for the Lights of the 1999 foreign press: best screenplay for the director Francis Veber and best actor for Jacques Villeret. And it is amply deserved, since the performance of the late actor who died on January 28, 2005 is simply phenomenal, as well as his countless cult replicas!
The replicas of Cons dinnerwe know them by heart. For exactly 80 minutes, the characters chain the sentences that have become essential in a masterful way. Just for you, here is a little anthology of the best replicas of Cons dinner ::
“He has a beautiful winner's head”
“His name is just Leblanc. – Ah well, he has no first name?”
“He is cute Monsieur Pignon, he is mean Mr. Brochant!”
“Isn't that your sister? – Is that his name, Suitor. Marlène Sasseur.”
“The Eiffel Tower … Completely made with matches, exactly 346,422!”
“He forgot my wife … he clown for 5 minutes and he forgets my wife! Ah the dumpling!”
“You are struggling to see, it looks like a horse that missed a hedge, we would cut you on a racetrack”
“An idiot who, in less than an hour brings your wife to adultery and you to tax control, is still prodigious!”
With Cons dinnerno dead time. We may have heard them repeatedly, these replicas full of nostalgia always make us want to (re) see this real jewel of comedy!
Tonight on TF1 at 9:10 p.m.
Cult replicas in “the idiot dinner”:
