Listen, each time I try to write about this film, I do it too long, too convoluted, too...Too! So simply : WATCH this film! It's a legend! It's insanely funny! It's insanely witty! The plot, the actor's play, the layout, the atmosphere, everything's top of the top! It's the best of the best of the best ever comedies! There...Feels better!
Now the plot : It's Christmas eve, a very special moment for French people (think of it as Christmas crossed with thanksgiving if you're from the US), in a parisian apartment doubling as office of a help line for suicidal people.
The staff are used to odd types, but only from a distance.
But this evening their quiet, narrow, petit-bourgeois lives will be totally upset by the intrusion of Josette and her former "boyfriend" Félix, two hillbillies (Felix is costumed as Santa Claus for he just took an odd job, advertising a Christmas peep-show on the streets).
To add insult to injury, Katia, a transvestite sick with loneliness, manages to sneak in, notwithstanding the usual intrusions of Mr Preskovic, immigrant from Bulgaria and neighbor to the help line, desperately trying to woo Thérèse, one of the female staff.
With all these conflicting characters the evening can only descend into chaos, and it will, of course, in a very dark and joyous way! Once again : WATCH THIS FILM! Ah, and please note that this is a DARK comedy...Therefore expect plenty of foul language, explicit sexual language, half-hidden sexual and implicit gore situations!
Now the plot : It's Christmas eve, a very special moment for French people (think of it as Christmas crossed with thanksgiving if you're from the US), in a parisian apartment doubling as office of a help line for suicidal people.
The staff are used to odd types, but only from a distance.
But this evening their quiet, narrow, petit-bourgeois lives will be totally upset by the intrusion of Josette and her former "boyfriend" Félix, two hillbillies (Felix is costumed as Santa Claus for he just took an odd job, advertising a Christmas peep-show on the streets).
To add insult to injury, Katia, a transvestite sick with loneliness, manages to sneak in, notwithstanding the usual intrusions of Mr Preskovic, immigrant from Bulgaria and neighbor to the help line, desperately trying to woo Thérèse, one of the female staff.
With all these conflicting characters the evening can only descend into chaos, and it will, of course, in a very dark and joyous way! Once again : WATCH THIS FILM! Ah, and please note that this is a DARK comedy...Therefore expect plenty of foul language, explicit sexual language, half-hidden sexual and implicit gore situations!