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Monsieur Naphtali (1999) - film review

  Olivier Schatzky Comedystars 1
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Summary
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….
Review
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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