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Le Cactus
2005 Comedy
 Review
With the dream casting of Clovis Cornillac and Pascal Elbé and a
script from the writers of the two La vérité si je mens
films, Le Cactus promises
much but sadly delivers very little. In their second directorial
collaboration, following the mildly entertaining Ah! Si j’étais riche (2002),
Gérard Bitton and Michel Munz appear to have run into an
inspirational block. Bitton and Munz compound the failure of
their cliché-sodden script by directing the film as if it were
intended exclusively for children of sub-average intelligence. The few potentially good jokes the film has to offer are so well signposted that they end up being not remotely funny at all, but what really kills this film is its truly ridiculous plot. Le Cactus feels like a shallow imitation of a Francis Veber comedy; it borrows many of Veber’s ideas but somehow failures to deliver any of the laughs. Cornillac and Elbé do their best to salvage this disaster but their efforts are pretty well wasted. Write a review for this film... User Comments
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Director:
Gérard Bitton, Michel Munz
Starring: Clovis Cornillac, Pascal Elbé, Alice Taglioni, Pierre Richard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin Synopsis
Sami is the world’s biggest hypochondriac. He has only to hear or
read about a rare and incurable disease to convince himself that he has
caught it. Unable to find work, he sponges off his friend
Patrick, a successful businessman who puts up with Sami only because he
once saved his life. Certain that he is suffering from a brain
disease, Sami goes for a head scan at his local hospital.
Impatient to know the result of the scan, he eavesdrops on a
conversation between two doctors and learns that he has just three
months left to live. (In fact, the doctors are not talking about
Sami but their potted cactus.) Sami breaks the news to Patrick
and announces that he intends to go to India to find a mystic who can
cure him. Feeling that he is responsible for Sami’s condition,
Patrick decides to go with him, but soon begins to wish that he had
stayed at home...
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