Deux grandes filles dans un pyjama (1974)
Directed by Jean Girault

Film Review

As far as French comedy goes, the 1970s really was a decade that deserves to be forgotten.  Having notched up several box office hits with the help of comedy legend Louis de Funès, director Jean Girault spent most of the decade turning out bargain basement and mostly humourless trash that deserves the appellation 'comedy' only in a darkly ironic vein.  Deux grandes filles dans un pyjama, the lamest of sex comedies, is one of the worst films that Girault made, and it doesn't help that it features one of the great divas of French cinema, Micheline Presle, who, in this film, serves much the same role as a virgin in a Black Sabbath mass - a sacrificial offering to the god of mediocrity.  The presence of Michel Galabru and Philippe Nicaud hardly comes as a surprise - audiences would get used to these two cropping up in the unseemliest of cinematic ventures - although here Nicaud (along with pretty well the entire cast) is completely upstaged by his wearing apparel.  Garish, silly and vacuous - that just about sums up the 1970s in general, and French comedy in particular.

Film Synopsis

Jérôme and Lionel are two married men who find themselves alone in their Parisian apartments whilst their respective spouses are away on holiday.  One day, Lionel manages to pick up two young women, Stephanie and Ingrid - one English, the other Swedish - but his wife Laurence chooses this inopportune moment to make an unexpected return.  Lionel has no choice but to pass the two women on to his friend Jérôme...