Albert est méchant
2004 Comedy
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Summary
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…
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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