The Dinner Game
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Movie Reviews of The Dinner Game
Movie Review: The innovative, bitter and irreverent French humor!
Summary: 5 Stars
The innovative freshness and powerful creativity of Francis Weber at the moment to choose original scripts is something that nobody can discuss. He was born with that clinical eye to pay special attention around the multiple connections between ingenuity, trickery, cheats seen under new perspectives.
In a globalized world, as you and me figure out, Weber has found and developed his personal contribution enriching, enhancing and expanding the universe of the humor in its countless possibilities of expression.
Dinner game is in this sense, not only a daredevil proposal around those minor sins and hence he has achieved to show those evident smart and effective monkey business in the great tradition of the great literary tradition of classic and irreverent writers, of caustic nature such as Beaumarchais, Moliere or Voltaire.
Don' t miss this provocative, imaginative and funny film. One of the best of the nineties, if not the best.
Movie Review: Do Not throw heavy objects at your TV
Summary: 5 Stars
The first time I watched this movie was on a VHS video tape. My wife and me had to stop the movie at least ten times to catch a breath between laughing fits. We did restrain ourselves from throwing the ashtray at the bumbling Ms. Pignon (Jacques Villeret) but I did throw my slippers.
Since then I've watched this film about 10 times, and still can only restrain myself with an effort. Thierry Lhermitte as the snob is fantastic. Alexandra Vandernoot, his wife does a great job, and Catherine Frot the girlfriend is really cool in her role.
Daniel Prevost, the tax collector who "would audit his own mother" but is crazy about football (soccer), and Francis Huster (the once slighted friend) who comes back to help play their roles admirably.
If you like slapstick, you won't find it here, but if you like your comedy fresh, and intelligent, by all means get this, get some friends, and sit down for a treat, but REMOVE ALL HEAVY OBJECTS FROM THE ROOM
Movie Review: A very funny movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I laughed so hard while watching this movie. A man invites a stranger to dinner, who he believes to be an idiot, so he can entertain himself and laugh at the idiot. Little by little, the idiot ruins the intelliegent/rich mans life, and one is not sure who the real idiot is. This is the kind of movie that could be real bad, but the actors have perfect timing and all the jokes work. One other comment- for those learning French. I have been buying movies made in France to improve my speaking and listening skills. This movie is excellent for learning French, the words are the ones I studied using the first 26 lessons of "French in Action". Many of the common words begenners learn are repeated in this movie and are easy to understand.
The DVD is excellent. The colors are bright and rich and everything is crystal clear. I wish more DVD's had the same quality as this one.
Movie Review: The Dinner Game
Summary: 5 Stars
This crackling, uproarious urban farce playfully advances the notion that idiocy is far superior to arrogance. Adapted from a popular stage play, the film's plot hinges on a series of increasingly ridiculous mishaps (a back injury, ill-advised phone calls) in which the well-meaning Pignon--a lonely obsessive who crafts matchstick models of famous monuments--inadvertently makes Pierre's personal affairs hellishly complex. Diminutive French actor Villeret, who acted the part on-stage, is an endearing boob, playing beautifully off Lhermitte's handsome, patronizing cad. Hilarious and fun, "The Dinner Game" is an irresistible ode to the dimwit in all of us.Movie Review: A delightful comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a film made from an original French play.Most,if not all the action takes place in a single room.The beginning of the film is a bit slow but,when all the characters are assembled on the stage the action starts.The humour is very European and one must play close attention to the conversations to understand and appreciate it all.So if you want to spend a couple of ours in front of the tube and enjoy really humorous aand witty exchanges and good character acting then this is the movie for you.I have enjoyed it and have watched it a number of times and so have some of my friends.The film is certainly a "buy"for your collection.