1978 · comedy
French Fried Vacation
Directed by Patrice Leconte1h 45m1978
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
Our read: French Fried Vacation (1978) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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“You want raunchy seventies Club Med sketch comedy with French ensemble chaos.”
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