Les Hommes préfèrent les grosses
1981 Comedy   
Director: Jean-Marie Poiré
Starring: Josiane Balasko, Luis Rego, Dominique Lavanant, Daniel Auteuil, Ariane Lartéguy


 
Summary
When her fiancé walks out on her, the frumpish Lydie has no choice but to find a flat mate to share her expensive apartment.  Her plan is to find someone who is even less physically attractive than she is, to give her a chance of finding another man.  The scheme backfires when the ugly woman who originally agrees to share her flat drops out and suggests a replacement: an attractive model named Eva.  The latter has no difficulty  attracting men, much to the chagrin of an increasingly distraught Lydia…



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Review
Les Hommes préfèrent les grosses was the third film to be directed by Jean-Marie Poiré, and is arguably the first which is instantly recognisable as a film from this director.  The madcap comic situations, great visual jokes, eccentric characterisation, and of course the enjoyably  O.T.T. performances, are all essential ingredients of that distinctively Poiré-esque brand of comedy.  Admittedly, this film is less rip-roaringly funny, and far less slick than the director’s subsequent hits – Le Père Noël est une ordure  (1982), Les Visiteurs (1993) – but a spirited performance from Josiane Balasko (who co-authored the script) makes it a diverting and enjoyable piece of no-nonsense comedy.

© James Travers 2005



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