After their success of their first film, La Grande
java(1969), the musical quintet known as The Charlots bounced back with more of
the same – madcap slapstick and hippy antics revolving around a meagre plot... [More...]
The group of talented comedy musicians known as Les Charlots were at the height of
their popularity in France when they returned to cinema screens in
their third... [More...]
The popular musical comedians Les Charlots crash through this eccentric comedy with their
inimitable flair for anarchic slapstick and boundless sense of fun... [More...]
Pierre Richard teams up with Jane Birkin in this rip-roaring comedy, a laugh-a-minute
farce which is filled with gloriously over-the-top comic situations... [More...]
Following their hugely successful pairing in La Moutarde me monte au nez
(1974), Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin and reunited for a second
helping of madcap comedy... [More...]
Haute cuisine takes on the might of prêt-à-manger in this
spirited satirical farce which serves up a mouth-watering
double portion of comic genius in the shape of Louis de Funès and
Coluche... [More...]
La Zizanie, one of the best of the later Louis de Funès film comedies, sees
the improbable pairing of the great comic actor with Annie Girardot... [More...]
This respectable comedy policier from director Claude Zidi provides ample opportunity
for the comic genius Coluche to show his talents as both an actor and a comedian... [More...]
What it lacks in artistic merit and originality, Les Sous-doués just about
makes up for in visual jokes and comic momentum. Like many of Claude Zidi’s films... [More...]
After the success of Les Sous-doués
, the film which established Daniel Auteuil as a popular comic actor in France,
a sequel was more than justified and... [More...]
One of the weaker films which Coluche made in his brief but often dazzling film career,
Banzai has a few exceptionally funny visual jokes but is overall a pretty mediocre
offering... [More...]
This comedy thriller, a no-holds barred satire on police corruption, was a major success
for director Claude Zidi. The film won no less than three Césars in
1985 (for best film... [More...]
Claude Zidi’s attempt to satirise the art of gag writing doesn’t quite hit the mark but
there are plenty of decent laughs to be had along the way... [More...]
Dynamic duo Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte are reunited in this respectable sequel
to the 1984 hit Les Ripoux.
Both films satirise perceived corruption in the French police service... [More...]
