Rendez-moi ma peau...
1980 Comedy / Fantasy
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Summary
Realising that she is losing her special powers, a witch named Zora sets off to find the
only man who can help her, the Grand Master. En route, she has a traffic accident
with two mortals, a television repair man, Jean-Pierre, and a housewife, Marie.
In a fit of pique, Zora swaps their two bodies, so that Jean-Pierre has the body of a
woman, and Marie that of a man. As Zora drives off leaving her victims stranded,
Jean-Pierre and Marie agree to work together to find Zora in the hope that she can reverse
their transformation. They engage a private detective, Hector Shoms, to track down
the missing witch. Whilst Shoms and his assistant, Datson, pursue their enquiry,
Jean-Pierre and Marie attempt to return to their everyday life...
Review
With its frothy mix of burlesque comedy, occult fantasy and keen satire, Rendez-moi
ma peau ought to be a first rate comic film. Unfortunately, the film veers to
extreme silliness on far too many occasions and its lack of sophistication and self-restraint
is often more tiring than entertaining. That said, there is some great comedy in
this film, the best scenes being those where the body-exchanged victims try to continue
their lives as if nothing has happened. The obvious jokes about sexual inequality
in the home and the workplace are made, although, alas, this kind of intelligent satire
takes up a comparatively small part of the film. Most of the film is concerned with
increasingly bizarre methods of fortune-telling and wizardry.
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