There is a bit of Tati and Bertrand Blier, in this movie featuring a cast almost as huge as the one featured in Laurent Baffie's "Les clefs de bagnole", with some of the best actresses and actors in french cinema's family. Bruno Podalydès really knows how to show the best part (in both acceptions of the term) of all those great actors, particularly his brother Denis (who, btw, and completely unrelatedly, I once met riding a bicycle in Paris ^^).
I somehow felt the very light political touch of the film when finally watching the spinning round of names of the end credits, and vaguely thinking about this year's new form of demonstration in France : the "Ronde Infinie des Obstinés" ; though this round had nothing to do with the subject of this movie, and although the one in the end credits was more alluding to Tati's "Playtime", you can still hear two characters named after french recent Prime Ministers ("Jospin" and "Raffarin"). Still, being "Versailles rive droite" (Versailles' right bank of the Seine), one can wonder where the political ideas really go in that no-so-sociopolitical movie...
I somehow felt the very light political touch of the film when finally watching the spinning round of names of the end credits, and vaguely thinking about this year's new form of demonstration in France : the "Ronde Infinie des Obstinés" ; though this round had nothing to do with the subject of this movie, and although the one in the end credits was more alluding to Tati's "Playtime", you can still hear two characters named after french recent Prime Ministers ("Jospin" and "Raffarin"). Still, being "Versailles rive droite" (Versailles' right bank of the Seine), one can wonder where the political ideas really go in that no-so-sociopolitical movie...
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