Monsieur Naphtali (1999)

Monsieur Naphtali is a French film comedy first released in 1999, directed by Olivier Schatzky.  The film stars Elie Kakou, Gilbert Melki , Isabelle Ferron, Alice Evans and Jean-Marie Lamour.  Our overall rating for this film is: very poor.


Monsieur Naphtali is reluctant to leave the psychiatric clinic that has been his sanctuary for longer than he can remember.  However, entering the real world proves to be less painful than he had imagined.  He immediately falls in the way of an attractive young woman who falls in love with him and draws him into her middle class entourage….

Awful.  Although the central premise of the film (a satire on the gullability of the middle classes) has some mileage, it is so badly realised that it fails at just about every level.  The overly exaggerated characters are so unconvincing and badly portrayed that you can’t help wondering why the screenwriter and actors ever bothered giving up their day jobs.  Shallow, pretentious and totally lacking in charm and narrative coherence, Monsieur Naphtali is an unbearably bad film.

© James Travers 2007

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