Recto / Verso
1999 Comedy
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Summary
Having lost his job as TV presenter, Fred begins to wonder if his career is over.
To save himself and his mother from bankruptcy, he is forced to accept a contract with
a gay shopping channel. The problem is that his new employer fancies him.
Fred’s only option is to persuade his cousin Joël to pretend to be his boyfriend
– which complicates even further the chaotic love lives of all concerned.
Review
Like the majority of gay-themed films made in the 1990s, this wacky French comedy now
feels grotesquely caricatured and dated. It stars Smaïn, a little-known
actor who does little to engage the sympathy of his audience (his persona is that of a
yuppie from the 1980s) – and indeed there is hardly a likeable character in the entire
film, apart from Michel Muller’s downtrodden Fernandel-like Joël. However,
whilst the storyline is a mess, there are some decent jokes, even if the comic situations
are by and large repetitive and a tad facile, relying far too heavily on the familiar
gay stereotypes.
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