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Un Moment d'Egarement (1977)
Director: Claude Berri
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From Time Out Film Guide
Computerised comedy: find two unappetisingly overweight hams (Marielle and Lanoux), cast them as a pair of menopausal mates adrift in St Tropez, let one of them be seduced by the other's nubile daughter. Should the need arise, through miscalculation, for an atom of real narrative invention (as here, with the film's denouement), just leave it fashionably 'open-ended' by resorting to a freeze-frame. Its sole interest is as a choice specimen of the complacent obsession of French film-makers with near-incestuous, near-paedophiliac liaisons. Remade equally blandly by Stanley Donen as Blame It On Rio.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Berri
Cast: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Victor Lanoux, Christine Dejoux, Agnès Soral, Martine Sarcey, Robert Bahr, Tiburce Fauretto, Tessa Bouche full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 100 mins
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