Réveillon chez Bob

1984 [FRENCH]

Comedy

IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 174 174

Director

Denys Granier-Deferre Photo
Denys Granier-Deferre

Top cast

Saskia Cohen Tanugi Photo
Saskia Cohen Tanugi as
Bernard Fresson Photo
Bernard Fresson as Kremeur
Mireille Darc Photo
Mireille Darc as Madeleine
Charles Dalin Photo
Charles Dalin as (as Charly Dalin)
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756.05 MB
1280*766
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  gr  us  es  hu  ro  
24 fps
1 hr 22 min
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1.37 GB
1792*1072
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  gr  us  es  hu  ro  
24 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

Bobbing for Bob.

Like father,like son? not really,for talented Pierre Granier Deferre's son,Denys opts for the heavy-handed French comedy ;after "Que Les Gros Salaires Lèvent Le Doigt" (=let people with high income put up their finger) ,"Réveillon Chez Bob" (=Christmas eve's dinner at Bob's place)is not an improvement ;it will be 2010 before Denys Granier-Deferre makes a memorable effort, "Pièce Montée ",influenced by Altman's "a wedding" .A young boy wants his father (Jean Rochefort) back ;this comics writer is always away from him and estranged from his attractive wife (Mireille Darc);so he imagines a stratagem :he writes his dad a letter in which he tells him that his mom's new lover,Bob , beats him,mistreats him ;in fact Bob is neither the mother's lover ,nor a child-batterer,but is none other than the family doctor.Thus,all along the Christmas night,when everybody has a wild time , daddy goes in search of the mysterious Bob ,who plays the role of what the French call "L'Arlésienne" ,a person who ,although much talked about , never materializes.The movie begins quite well, with daddy , "helped" by a couple (a garage owner and his accountant: Guy Bedos and Agnès Soral ),searching his enemy in a sea of windows in a giant residential complex ;then the first party they spoil and turn into a free -for -fall.Then the plot peters out :it becomes repetitive ,the good gags are few and far between, the actors begin to ham it up to enliven things a bit ,they meet Italians ,black people singing such classics as "only you" ,Pieds Noirs ,they walk through a sewer ;when they open the manhole , dad is confronted with his distraught wife who has lost their little boy.In spite of talents involved, it's nothing more than a very average heavy-handed comedy of which the French have the secret.Even the kid is annoying ,his words are sometimes too recherché for his age ("incontrôlable ").
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