Wednesday 11 May 2011

recent films watched - crustaces et coquillages (cockles and mussels) - happiness

This is a 1998 film about anything but happiness. It is a black comedy by Todd Solondz, about three sisters and a father who is a pedophile. Cheerful stuff all the way through, but good. The father (Bill) when asked by Billy (his son) if he would ever try to have sex with him, said he would not try to, but would "jerk off instead". Billy is about the only one in the film with a happy ending (so to speak), as he is trying to wank all through the film, but only manages to do so at the end. Todd's follow up Life During Wartime is just as cheerful.

This is a 2005 film by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. The usual kind of French farce, whereby a family go away to stay in a house by the sea, then there are misunderstandings and affairs. The wife has an affair, the husband realises he is gay and meets an old lover, and the son decides he is not gay. Those crazy French.....

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