Foyer perdu

The precedent user has a point there : the first third is the most appealing : the godfather/father scene ,full of insinuations ("you've got a grandfather's face")is much fun to watch .But the rest is downright dull ,repetitive ,heavy-handed and the form will remind you of the first years of the talkies when they used to film plays ; it could really be played on stage and it would not make a big difference .

As for the ideology ,it harks back to the Occupation days when the regime de Vichy used to glorify the family .

Jean Loubignac is a director of coarse comedies :if "coup dur chez les mous" is saved by the actors , "le martyr de Bougival" is a mess;his "Piedalu" series are reportedly inept.

Jean Loubignac directed lousy comedies, like "Coup dur chez les mous". But "Foyer perdu" is a level much more above : better casting (Gaby Morlay as the sensitive mother, Guy Rapp as the authoritarian father, Aimé Clarion as the cool godfather) and above all the bourgeois incisive dialogues we don't hear in modern movies. The first thirty minutes are great, a constant evolution until the climax. Then the story turns in lousy melodrama. And appears a new character, Guy Rapp's mother, played by superb Mary Marquet, but a problem shocked me : Marquet and Rapp in real life are only 5 years difference, so not plausible. See the Paris wine market sequence, next to the French cinémathèque. Just a curiosity.