Comedy

  • Michel Boisrond – Du soleil plein les yeux (1970)

    1961-1970ComedyFranceMichel Boisrond

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    Vincent, a twenty-five year-old intern, lives in Rennes with his mother and his eighteen-year-old brother Bernard. In order to cheer up Bernard who has just failed his baccalauréat exam, the father invites him and his older brother to spend a holiday in his villa in Morocco, where he lives estranged from his ex-wife. Vincent and and Bernard decide to get there by sailboat, accompanied by Geneviève, Vincent’s fiancée. Vincent, who has never forgiven his father for leaving him when he was a child, remains hostile and withdrawn. Once in Agadir, they take part in a regatta during which Bernard gets to know Monika, a sexy uninhibited girl. But Monika is actually attracted to Vincent who, despite his dislike for any compromise of principle, finds himself torn between two women.Read More »

  • Roland Klick – Schluckauf AKA Hiccup (1992)

    1991-2000ComedyCultGermanyRoland Klick

    Gertie, called Flo by her friends, sees her big chance of a model carreer, when she manages to get the business card of successful model Chantal at a fashion show in her sleepy village. She goes to Berlin and nests in the flat share of Chantal and Freddie. Whereas country girl Flo is still busy to find herself, Chantal is about to lose herself more and more in the depths of stardom. The story of a very unusual female friendship.Read More »

  • Lena Dunham – Sharp Stick (2022)

    Lena Dunham2021-2030ComedyDramaUSA

    Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.Read More »

  • Kenneth Branagh – In the Bleak Midwinter AKA A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)

    Kenneth Branagh1991-2000ComedyUSA

    Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister’s local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a ‘profit sharing’ basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect – and does not get – the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.Read More »

  • Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich – Formula radugi AKA Formula of the Rainbow (1966)

    1961-1970ComedyGeorgi Yungvald-KhilkevichSci-FiUSSR

    Young scientist Vladimir Bantikov (Nikolai Fyodortsov) from the Institute for Intractable Problems is working on a rainbow formula. In order not to be distracted by numerous unnecessary and boring meetings, he creates his twin – the robot Yashu.Read More »

  • Eldar Shengelaia – Sherekilebi AKA The Eccentrics (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseComedyEldar ShengelaiaGeorgia

    There’s a distinct madness to Georgian auteur Eldar Shengalaia’s method when it comes to blending political satire and humour. He deploys madcap comedy with ease to both disguise and expose the nuanced complexities of individual and societal living during the Soviet era. The 1973 surrealistic satire Eccentrics is Shengalaia’s second feature-length comedy, in which he rekindles the thematic pneuma of his earlier diploma films such as Legend of the Frozen Heart and Fairy Tale in Snow (1958-60) by juxtaposing fantasy and reality in a fable-like love story, described variously by critics as “poetic”, “grand and eternal”, “a parable of grotesque realism” and “vaudeville-like.”Read More »

  • Lowell Sherman – The Greeks Had a Word for Them AKA Three Broadway Girls (1932)

    1931-1940ClassicsComedyLowell ShermanUSA

    In this sophisticated Jazz Age comedy, a trio of money-hungry women all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. The twenties come roaring back with immorality and in-fighting.Read More »

  • Juan Taratuto – No sos vos, soy yo AKA It’s Not You, It’s Me (2004)

    Juan Taratuto2001-2010ArgentinaComedyDrama

    Quote:
    Thirty-year-old Javier is a surgeon and in his free time works as a disc jockey. He decides to marry and move to the United States with his girlfriend María. They make all their plans; they wed, and then María is the first to move and make contacts in their new home, while Javier packs up in Argentina and prepares to start his new life in the States. While he is on the way to the airport, he receives a call from María telling him that she is confused and has been seeing someone else.Read More »

  • Patrick Bouchitey – Lune froide AKA Cold Moon (1991)

    Drama1991-2000ComedyFrancePatrick Bouchitey

    SYNOPSIS from amg and IMDb
    Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister’s apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, “cold blood,” referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman’s brother. Read More »

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