Gazon Maudit [VHS] [1995]

This film is a good bet for that vaguely cultural smug feeling that comes from watching a film with subtitles, whilst not being in that headache-inducingly lofty stratosphere of intellectualism inhabited by certain other French films (naming no names...) In other words, it's good fun. If you can suspend your disbelief in the rather tenuous plotline, it is charming and whimsical in the best French tradition (for any fans of French comedy - it's got the same slightly loopy feel to it as 'Amelie' or 'La vie en rose') I wouldn't go so far as to call it the lesbian 'Amelie' - for a start, neither of the female protagonists are as fit as Audrey Tatou! - but it does have a certain "je ne sais quoi"...The director, Josiane Balasko, plays one of the three central characters (yes, this is your classic French menage à trois set-up...) and is very good.Highly recommended.

Loli, played by Victoria Abril, has given up a promising career as a dancer to become the wife of a womanising estate agent; and though she knows of one woman he has had an affair with and has forgiven him, she knows nothing about any of the others - not even her own baby-sitter! No. Her main complaint against him is not his promiscuity but that he takes her for granted and shows her little affection. So, when a butch lesbian, played by Josiane Balasko, appears on the scene, stopping at the house to ask for water for her van¹s radiator, she is a ripe fruit waiting to be picked. And this kind, mature, worldly-wise lesbian is an expert in the art of seduction.On an evening out together, the husband, played by Alain Chabat, already annoyed at the lesbian¹s intrusion into his home with his wife¹s encouragement, is driven into a blind fury when he discovers, on bending down to retrieve a cigarette from under the table, the lesbian¹s hand half way up his wife¹s thigh, and then sees them dancing together very intimately. From this follow many scenes of shouting and screaming, jealousy and rage. You feel for the husband¹s usurpation and his humiliation at being rejected for a lesbian - though you rejoice at his come-uppance - and you feel for the wife who deserves the affection she has been so long denied, and you feel for the lesbian with a loving heart who wants only to make the wife happy - though others may condemn her for destroying a relatively happy marriage. .. But despite all the passion and jealousy, this is a light comedy and not a heavy drama, and you have the feeling all along that everything will work out well in the end....The moral of the story, ...is that the only things that matter are love, tenderness and affection and if we get those the source¹s sexual gender is immaterial; we are all bisexual.This is a bright, witty and observant comedy, well-acted, particularly by Victoria Abril, and constantly entertaining.

Un régal ce retour en arrière !Tjrs autant de plaisir à le révisioner et la musique superbeMerci

Tel que décrit

un film déjà vieux de 30 ans , mais qui reste toujours aussi drôle , et pourtant qui traite d'un sujet tabou à l'époque , l'homosexualité féminine , en 1994 il fallait osez faire ce film , et les 4 acteurs principaux , mettent tout leur énergie pour nous amusez sans temps mort vraiment du début à la fin , avec une Victoria Abril bourrée d'énergie et de drôlerie pendant tout le film , Alain Chabat est parfait aussi dans l'un de ses 1er rôle avec Josiane Balasko ,sans oublié Ticky Holgado en parfait gaffeur ! on peut voir ce film plusieurs fois sans jamais s'en lasser , c'est une pure merveille , aujourd'hui je ne sais pas si on pourrait faire un film aussi détonnant ! un film récompensé et qui à bien failli finir aux OSCARS du meilleur film étranger ! à posséder !

super drole a vous de rire achetez le vous le regreterez pas je recomande livraison rapide et sogner BRAVOS rien a redire

Je suis content de recevoir se film culte !Le souci c'est que l'affiche sur la jaquette est différente de celle proposée 😕.Une grosse inscription au dessus des acteurs " les plus grandes comédie du cinéma français" ce qui gache beaucoup l'affiche 😡.Il me reste à voir le film et vous dire si tout va bien côté visionnage.A plus ...