Screenwriter Frédéric Proust makes a far from auspicious
directing debut with this limp comedy, which soon stumbles after a
promising start through a lack of original ideas and a distinct deficit
of humour. Acting giants Berléand and Chesnais are
well-suited to spar off one another but both are ill-served by a
lacklustre script which fails to make either of their characters
remotely convincing. Lacking the ambition of even a modest
television movie, the film is content to wallow in lame caricature and
soon becomes tedious and predictable.
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Film Synopsis
Charles and Pierrot are inseparable. The day Charles begins his
retirement could not have come sooner. Now, the two friends can
spend their days together and put into practice their motto: 'Make the
most of life and laugh at everything.' Thanks to their wild
imagination, the days of their second adolescence will be mad and
eventful, much to the distress of the women in their lives...
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.