| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
[Dinner Game]
Les cons here are simply those unsophisticated enough to tell lies on a regular basis in order to support a vapid lifestyle. And they are far more likeable than the farceurs who cannot keep their hands off the wives of others and/or from keeping mistresses: The humorless oafs with the hearts of gold.
The whole affair revolves both around purportedly-intelligent people needing idiots to prove their own intelligence, by comparison, and in coming to need the latter to get them out of a social/sexual fix - of the intelligent people's own making. The cultural snobbery here is writ large and it soon becomes apparent who the real fools are. Affective proof that treating idiots as idiots can backfire.
From small beginnings this French farce rolls downhill with increasing speed; becoming ever more elaborate and complicated and funny. It is contrived in a way that does not spoil our enjoyment of the contrivance especially since the characters are archetypes and the entire mechanism is like a finely-tooled Swiss watch. The movie does not outstay its welcome and its diet-fed running time ensures it is all lean and no fat.
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