Les secrets professionnels du Dr Apfelglück (1991)

Directors:

Alessandro Capone
Stéphane Clavier

Writers:

Philippe Bruneau (writer)
Thierry Lhermitte (writer)

Release Date:

24 April 1991 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Fictional Game Show | Blue Collar Worker | Death | Servant | Truck Driver

Cast

Jacques Villeret	...	Martineau
Micha Bayard	...	Maman Tonnerre
Ticky Holgado	...	L'hôtelier (Le Ténardier)
Claire Nadeau	...	L'hôtelière (La Ténardière)
Martin Lamotte	...	L'Espagnol
Charlotte de Turckheim	...	L'Espagnole
Philippe Bruneau	...	Jean-Paul Tarade
Alessandro Haber	...	Jean-Luc, le réalisateur
Véronique Genest	...	Micheline
Ennio Fantastichini	...	Alain
Daniel Gélin	...	Roland Grumaud
Renato Scarpa	...	Michel Martinelli
Angelo Orlando	...	Le machiniste enrhumé
Nicola Pistoia	...	Le caméraman
Alain Chabat	...	Gérard Martinez

Also Known As:

The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck (International: English title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Company:

Films A2

Movie Connections:

References The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

What are these secrets?

This is a sketches film introducing the Apfelglück doctor (Thierry Lhermitte) and four of his patients who are living each other a weird or embarrasing adventure. Among these patients, there is Jacques Villeret who's got to spend the night in a disturbing hotel. Philippe Bruneau, actor of a movie in which a cinema crew doesn't succeed in making a sequence. Then it's Alain Chabat's turn in the skin of a quizmaster who can't get rid of a crude candidate (Roland Giraud). At last, it's Thierry Lhermitte's turn!! Indeed, following a fatal malaise, he's going to heaven (where everything's fine...).

Most of sketches movies are unequal and this movie isn't an exception to the rule. If the second and the last sketches are rather correct, the third one is falling into vulgarity and easiness, whereas the story of the first one is told and made in an indigent and unlikely way. Moreover, the movie often introduces some abortive situations and a bit of a mess that hardly maintain the spectator's attention (Lhermitte who tries desperately to get rid of his wife in heaven). Now what to say about the Apfelglück doctor? Well, he's a bad doctor: he has no control over his secretary, he doesn't care about what his patients say to him. But, we learn nothing about his professionals secrets... At the end: it's an untidy and light movie. In the register: sketches film, "Paris vu par..." is clearly superior.