Comment réussir... quand on est con et pleurnichard
1974 Comedy
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Summary
Antoine Robineau manages to sell his homemade alcoholic drinks not by
promoting their positive attributes, which are non-existent, but by
playing on the sympathy of his clients. He soon discovers that by
employing the same technique in his personal life, he is able to attract some very desirable
women, who assist him in his ascent of the social ladder... Review
Great cast, pity about the script. The flair for
screenwriting which Michel Audiard showed in films for other directors
is strangely lacking in the films which he himself directed. A
few brilliant visual gags aside, Comment
réussir... quand on est con et pleurnichard is a pretty
tedious run-about farce which suffers from a lamentably weak narrative
and some pretty feeble attempts at humour revolving
mostly about female nudity.
(At times, it looks as if this was intended as a clumsy send-up of Just Jaeckin's
controversial erotic drama Emmanuelle, released
the same year.)
Fortunately, Audiard's star-studded cast,
which includes such talented performers as Jean Rochefort and
Stéphane Audran, can be called upon to
make a sub-mediocre comedy mildly entertaining.
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