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Le Diner de Cons (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
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Le Diner de Cons (Original French Version with English Subtitles) Customer Reviews
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AS INTRICATE AND AMUSING AS ANY PLAY BY MOLIERE
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This film requires repeated viewing and never fails to amuse. If anything it ends too soon, almost surprisingly with the delightful thrill that it leaves you wanting more, as any true bit of showmanship must do. THe tale is so intricate and unravelling and involving, that you really grow to care for the fate of each of the characters and want so much to see that things turn out all right for each of them.
Of course it is the height of arrogance for that group to establish itself as an intellectual aristocracy far beyond any mere mortal foibles and foolishness and capable of choosing for its own entertainment each week an idiot to share at their dinner together. And of course members of that very elite group are exposed as being the most helpless and foolish idiots around. But, wait, there is more, much more.
This movie has much to say to the society we now have in the USA, and must be observed. FOllow it carefully. You may feel it too condensed and quick if raised on deadly slow American sitcoms. Just watch it once again, and it grows on you.
I first caught the very end late at night while visiting Montreal years ago, and was so frustrated it ended so quickly without indication of title. Imagine my joy to find the little French film I ignorantly chose form a discount bin in a Mexican supermarket turns out to be the same endearing movie. This is one to keep on that pile of movies, along with Seven Samurai or Grand Illusion or Tre Fratelli or A Particular Day or Ghost Dog or The Man from the Train, The Gospel According to Saint MAtthew, etc. etc., of things you know you will love to see again when you don't know what you want to see and are too tired to read your James Joyce commentary. I wish I had money to get all of the things on that list of films to see again, la Belle et la Bete, Black Orfee, etc
This is a really great film and one which rewards repeated viewing. I do hope that couple gets back together again thanks to and despite that idiot of the week's interjection. Oh, why does it end so soon! This one really does have the discipline to begin right inside the frantic action without much exposition, and to end before the action is complete.
What a great movie! Try it; you'll like it! Again, I have a version with only Spanish subtitles, and cannot speak for this version's compression and translation.
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