A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships and things turn awkward fast.
Acting
Noiret and Bouquet's withering chemistry—two legends tearing each other apart.
Writing
Blier's dialogue cuts like a dull knife: slow, painful, impossible to ignore.
Direction
Blier turns a living room into a gladiator pit of wounded masculinity.
Director
Bertrand Blier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Blier built his career on provocative male duets—this is his late-career eulogy for the French macho archetype he helped create.
The title 'Les Côtelettes' refers to pork chops, the meal that frames the battle—meat, consumption, and masculinity as performance.
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