A stuffy debate on laughter descends into glorious cream pie chaos. French cinema said 'let them eat cake... to the face.'
A debate on the definition of the word laughter, organized by Madame de Saint-Jules and two academicians, illustrated by film extracts, turns into a huge battle of cream pies.
Direction
Verdier weaponizes pie fights as class warfare. Revolutionary, literally.
Writing
Dialogue so pretentious it deserves dessert-based humiliation.
Director
Roger Verdier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made just after WWII, this anarchic comedy flips off France's intellectual establishment when they needed it most. Liberation, but make it dessert.
This basically invented the 'serious symposium devolves into food fight' trope later stolen by Animal House and every graduation party movie ever.
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