Un fil à la patte (2005)

Director:

Michel Deville

Writers:

Georges Feydeau (play) and
Rosalinde Deville (adaptation)

Release Date:

27 April 2005 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Despite the fact that they love each other, a couple realize that they must "find" other (and rich) people in order to keep their frivolous, costly lives. |

Plot Keywords:

Based On Play

Cast

Emmanuelle Béart	...	Lucette
Charles Berling	...	Edouard de Bois d'Enghien
Dominique Blanc	...	Baronne Duverger
Jacques Bonnaffé	...	Fontanet
Mathieu Demy	...	Firmin
Julie Depardieu	...	Amélie
Sara Forestier	...	Viviane
Stanislas Merhar	...	Irrigua
Tom Novembre	...	Chenneviette
Clément Sibony	...	Antonio
Patrick Timsit	...	Bouzin
Lily Galland	...	La fleuriste (as Lily Ben Slimane)
Virginie Hocq	...	Emilie
Elisabeth Macocco	...	L'invitée égarée
Benoît Muracciole	...	Le notaire

Runtime:

France:79 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Studio 24, Villeurbanne, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France

Company:

Eléfilm

Soundtrack:

Extraits du Ballet de Faust

something's not working

I have played Feydeau on stage and he's a great playwright of his kind. However, something in this film is not working. Although the play is great (the adaptation maybe went too far away from it), and Charles Berling a great actor (one of my favourite ones), "un fil à la patte" is really bad. I was really disappointed by the lack of subtlety in the dialogues, feydeau's humour seems to have been swept away, and sexuality is certainly not described in a subtle and humorous way, but more in a voyeuristic manner, which i don't criticize here, but it's just so not feydeau! you leave the cinema with the feeling of a failure, something that could have been so funny and clever, but is just disappointingly bad.