Sitcom ***½ (1998, Adrien de Van, Évelyne Dandry, François Marthouret, Marina de Van) – Classic Movie Review 5379

Writer-director François Ozon’s 1998 French surreal black comedy is shockingly funny and, at heart, thoughtful and intelligent.

It traces the arrival of a pet rat that causes chaos in the household of a wealthy suburban French family.

Adrien de Van stars as the the son, Nicolas, who declares his gayness, prompting the mother (Evelyne Dandry) to attempt to seduce him as a cure.

His sister Sophie (Marina de Van) starts developing unhealthy sexual ideas, and the father (François Marthouret) imagines that a solution lies in their immediate deaths.

Ozon’s film is provocative and different, and valuable for that.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 5379

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