"Idiots are fair game," everyone agrees in THE DINNER GAME. It doesn't take much to figure out who's coming to dinner... "This tops my wildest dreams," says the boor, Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), when he meets his soon-to-be "guest of honor," the redoubtable Pignon. Things quickly go awry and it's Lhermitte's deadpan reactions to Villeret's Pignon that are absolutely priceless; Buster Keaton himself would be impressed. When a friend vouches for Pignon- "He's no fool."-, Brochant immediately plunges ahead with making Pignon memorize his lies. The tables are inadvertently turned again and again as the hole is dug deeper and deeper. Just when it looks like a sappily-ever-after ending, the rug is yanked out from under us one last time. Lots of fun, and not a bad idea at all for a dinner party...
Review of Le Dîner de Cons
