Rated 4.2 out of 5 This is one of the best comedies of all time and the title fooled us

“I made a mistake”, “Do I have a Belgian accent?” or even “His name is Juste Leblanc”, All his lines immediately recall images from the famous Dîner de cons, a film directed by Francis Weber based on his play and filmed by Thierry Lhermite and Jacques Villeret. Rated 4.2 out of 5, this comedy has a lot more in store for the audience, but its title still belongs to them.

Deprived of dinner!

In Le Dîner de Cons, we discover that Pierre Brochan and his friends have an unhealthy tradition of inviting the “cons” over for a meal to make fun of them all evening. This requires an entire organization, with “enemy stalkers” pointing out potential candidates to them, and then meeting these selected cons in person to determine their suitability. “world class”.

When Brochant (Lhermitt) has kidney failure this dinner evening and his wife leaves him, he’s only on hand “The Idiot at Our Dinner”Francois Pignon (Villeret) to keep him company and who will help… in his own way.

And the film’s audience first witnessed a closed-door session in Brossant’s apartment, without the celebrity dinner promised in the title. Of course, this is mentioned several times and is even shown during a brief scene where Broshant calls his friend to inform him that he may not come, and we see what such an event is. Those few seconds of screen time will be all we see of him.

The Americans took the opposite side

This title, which refers to a dinner we don’t end up attending, might surprise Americans too, because in the film’s remake, screenwriters David Guion and Michael Handelman chose to have their story called Dinner for Schmucks (Dinner in France) take place mostly during dinner. .

Let us remind you that the purpose of the Cons Dinner is to condemn this horrible entertainment, not to encourage it. What better way to do this than to confront one of the participants with the fact that he is a very bad person, and what better than being stuck at home, having to deal with an “idiot” who might not be so bad?