French Humour (Dumb as Fuck)
French comedy where intelligence is optional and commitment is mandatory. These movies are dumb on purpose, and they execute the dumbness with craftsmanship. Plus it's french so of course we'll make fun of it! If you’ve never laughed at something stupid with pride, welcome.
The Picks
A spy who is confidently wrong about everything. Elegant stupidity, perfectly executed.
Official synopsis
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath/OSS 117 is sent to Cairo to investigate the disappearance of his best friend and fellow spy Jack Jefferson, only to stumble into a web of international intrigue.
French comedy chaos with quotable lines for decades. A national monument disguised as a dumb movie.
Official synopsis
Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.
Meta parody, deadpan stupidity, and jokes that shouldn’t work but do. Cult status earned.
Official synopsis
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Honorable Mentions
A man whose entire personality is ‘surf’ despite living nowhere near surf. Pure idiocy. Somehow iconic.
Official synopsis
A wannabe surfer parties on the French Riviera while awaiting the perfect wave.
Prehistoric murder mystery with jokes so dumb they loop back to genius. French absurdity at full power.
Official synopsis
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.