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I am watching 3 Francis Veber comedies in series.

Today was

Le Dîner de cons / The Dinner Game (1998)

Veber says that he likes to put a cat and a dog into a bag and then watch how they end up being friends.

It is his specialty.

This one has a smart sophisticated guy belonging to a small club that has a monthly dinner for the idiots that each can find. A prize is given.

The guy finds his idiot through an acquaintance—a sort of third party find—and asks the idiot, who happens to make match models of famous buildings, to his apartment for a drink before the dinner so that he can brief himself on the idiot's particular idiocy.

I know.

It sounds complicated when it is written down. Farce always 'reads' that way.

Nevertheless, it is a funny film with a lot for the guy and his idiot to find out about each other.

A lot depends on the electricity between the two stars. Their timing is impeccable.

It is good, often Gallic, fun.

I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.

Tomorrow, The Closet. Yes. That closet.

It will star Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Autiel who we last say together in Jean De Florette. A different experience I am sure.

Labels: film