1998 · comedy · disaster
The Dinner Game
Directed by Francis Veber1h 20m1998
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
Our read: The Dinner Game (1998) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · disaster entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / disaster, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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