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The Dinner Game
Why this pick
Its tightly built farce turns social cruelty and bourgeois self-importance into escalating comic chaos, with the same sharp French appetite for skewering class manners.
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MOVIE1988 1h 30m FRA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
Its broad collision of incompatible social worlds delivers the same pleasure in watching etiquette, family order and class assumptions collapse under comic pressure.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In a maternity clinic two children from families with completely different social backgrounds are switched at birth. One goes on to live in an upper-middle-class family while the other to a poor family. Twelve years later, the mistake is discovered and the child living with the poor family is taken back by his parents, but keeps in touch with his former family and makes them encounter his new brothers and sisters. A series of satirical and comedic scenes follow.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Benoît Magimel
Momo Groseille
Hélène Vincent
Marielle Le Quesnoy
Catherine Hiegel
Josette
Daniel Gélin
Docteur Mavial
Christine Pignet
Madame Groseille
Patrick Bouchitey
Père Auberger
Catherine Jacob
Marie-Thérèse
André Wilms
Monsieur Jean Le Quesnoy