French Humour (smart)
Same country, different weapon: social observation. These are the comedies that are funny because they’re accurate. They don’t need explosions. They just need people being people, badly. If you like humor with teeth, pick here.
The Picks
A family comedy that pokes at stereotypes and social tension with a big mainstream smile. It lands more often than it misses.
Official synopsis
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
Vacation comedy that captures group stupidity with surgical precision. The jokes are old, the cringe is eternal.
Official synopsis
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
War comedy where incompetence is the strategy. Lightweight, but remarkably effective at being charming.
Official synopsis
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.
Honorable Mentions
A man fears the North of France, discovers humans live there. Comfort comedy with regional heart.
Official synopsis
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...