Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. Until the day he meets Claire, an old girlfriend, who has a little boy. Loïc finds the resemblance between the little boy and himself enormous and is convinced that he is his father...
Acting
Roland Giraud commits fully to pathetic desperation.
Writing
Mumps as plot device is genuinely inspired stupidity.
Director
Pierre Jolivet
Clémentine Célarié
Claire Chaumette
Zabou Breitman
Odile
Roland Giraud
Loic Mast
Stéphane Freiss
Bob, le frère de Loïc
François Berléand
Le beau-frère de Loïc
Maaike Jansen
Chotska
Maka Kotto
Arthur
Marc Jolivet
Fabrice
Caroline Chaniolleau
Jeanne, la soeur
Michèle Loubet
La mère de Loïc
Didier Flamand
Jacques Kurland
Maurice Illouz
Le premier pompier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This epitomizes the 'comédie populaire française' of the 1980s—working-class settings, sexual farce, and zero therapy.
Zabou Breitman, playing the mistress Odile, would become one of France's most acclaimed directors—imagine her watching this now.
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