Isabelle, the human resources manager of a large shipping company,
makes a serious blunder by taking as her lover her
employer. Before setting off on the maiden voyage of the
pride of his fleet, her boss decides to end the affair. Some
women in Isabelle's position would no doubt take their revenge by
resorting to poison or firearms. Isabelle opts for a more subtle
form of vengeance. She hires an unemployed washout named
Rémy to work as a hospitality host. At first,
Rémy lives up to Isabelle's expectations, but then the walking
disaster suddenly finds his sea legs...
Cast: Franck Dubosc (Rémy Pasquier),
Valérie Lemercier (Isabelle),
Gérard Darmon (Richard Morena),
Luisa Ranieri (Margarita Cavallieri),
Lionnel Astier (Jérôme Berthelot),
Elisa Servier (Caroline Berthelot),
Philippe Lellouche (William),
Jean-Michel Lahmi (Le pointilleux),
Guilaine Londez (La pointilleuse),
Shirley Bousquet (Femme du joueur casino),
Elisabeth Margoni (Gabriella),
Reem Kherici (Femme du Russe),
François Vincentelli (Joueur casino),
Enrico Macias (Enrico Macias),
Petra Silander (La nounou),
Vincent Roget (Le russe),
Christian Gabriel (Le ventriloque),
Héctor Cabello Reyes (Fabien),
Gil Alma (Le candidat idéal),
Noah Morillon-Schieber-Herrbach (Barnabé)
Country: France
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 90 min
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
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.
In the 1940s, the shadowy, skewed visual style of 1920s German expressionism was taken up by directors of American thrillers and psychological dramas, creating that distinctive film noir look.