2006 · comedy
Les Aristos
Directed by Charlotte de Turckheim1h 19m2006
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
Our read: Les Aristos (2006) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
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