La crise

This movie gives a good view, although somewhat distorted, of France in the 90s.

A man in his mid-life crisis loses his wife, his kids and his job the same day. He then goes through a picaresque journey with a nitwit side kick he finds on his way and whom he decides to help.

The man, played by a very good Vincent Lindon, meets friends, friends of friends, and relatives, and realizes what the true reasons of his failures are.

Everybody is going through his own crisis and the main character realizes that everybody's life sucks (or does it really?)

This film treats about every social problems in our modern societies: solitude, lack of love, lack of work, lack of understanding, lack of appreciation.

Some of the characters are a little bit cliches, but most of them give a very very good interpretation. I also think that the cliches are very acceptable because the whole atmosphere of the movie is very surrealistic.

Look out for the scene with the parents. It's my personal favorite.

I would easily rate it into the top 100 of bad movies that were originally supposed to be critical, intellectual and observant to societal changes.

It seems they noticed themselves that this was plain c**p, and tried to spice it up with some comedy. Alas, almost always failing in this respect as well.

Yes, I did watch it attentively throughout to the end, thinking and hoping for an explanation of the whole flic. I was hoping and praying that we might find out that it was just a dream, or something likewise. Ales, it wasn't. I don't want to spoiler you with the end, and I couldn't. There's nothing to spoiler you with. The end is actually the climax to an already very weak undertaking.

"Nothing to be seen here. Move further."

Man in his thirties loses wife and job and spends chitty-chitty-bang-bang week-end trying to get his life together. Great actor-numbers. Everyone goes through a crisis. A lot of fun for uninvolved viewers. Thought-provoking.

With Les Visiteurs & Le Dîner de Cons, this movie is the funniest French film of the 1990's. It's from Coline Serreau, from the Trois Hommes et un Couffin fame. It's a movie about urban loneliness and indifference, also about the broken families. How can you make fun with such subjects? Miss Serreau did, thanks to a very strong story and a great acting from Patrick Timsit, who becomes a major star after this film. Let's see this to have some real intelligent fun, before Hollywood grabs it for another massacre of French movies.

Happened upon this movie by accident - on TV. This is a very funny movie, seems extremely well written, directed, and acted, and above all has a heart-warming life-asserting attitude that is very refreshing.