Albert est méchant (2004)
Dir: Hervé Palud Comedy
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Overview
Albert est méchant is a French film comedy first released in 2004,
directed by Hervé Palud.
The film stars Christian Clavier, Michel Serrault, Arielle Dombasle, Priscilla and Bernard Farcy.
It has also been released under the title: Mean Old Albert.
Our overall rating for this film is: very poor.
Synopsis
When his father, the celebrated author Jo, dies, Patrick Lechat assumes that he will automatically
inherit a fortune. Unfortunately, it is not to be.
Jo has left his entire estate to his half-brother, Albert Moulinot, a reclusive
old man who lives alone on an island in Dordogne with a wild boar as his only companion.
Desperate for some easy money, Patrick visits Albert to try
to persuade him to offer him a share of his father’s inheritance.
To his surprise, Patrick discovers that Albert has no interest in money and agrees
to give him the entire inheritance – on the sole condition that he accompanies Patrick
to Paris to sign the necessary legal documents. Patrick’s
nightmare has just begun…
Film Review
This lowbrow family comedy gets off to a promising start but within a matter of minutes
its failings become all too apparent. The plot is instantly
predictable and rapidly degenerates into a rather silly routine comedy, with the film’s
three stars – Clavier, Dombasle and Serrault – dropping lazily into their stereotypical
character grooves. Like many of Hervé Palud’s
earlier films – for example, the risible
Un indien dans la ville (1994) – the comic
situations are so idiotic and contrived, the characterisation so hackneyed and shallow,
that the whole ghastly thing is viscerally painful to watch.
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