Sitcom (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Sitcom |
| Original title | Sitcom |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 77 minutes |
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| Director | François Ozon |
| script | François Ozon |
| production | Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonier |
| music | Eric Neveux |
| camera | Yorick Le Saux |
| cut | Dominique Petrot |
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Sitcom is a satirical film directed by François Ozon in 1998.
action
The film revolves around an upper-class French family: the mother Elaine, the father Jean, their teenage children Nicolas and Sophie, the maid Maria and her husband of color Abdu. One day the father brings home a laboratory rat that Elaine is terrified of. Son Nicolas has to attend a celebratory meal coming out , which makes at his mother quite a stir, but is not taken seriously by the guests. Maria's husband talks to Nicolas about it and turns out to be homosexual .
After dinner, Sophie rushes out of the window and is henceforth paraplegic . Since she no longer has any sensation in the genital organs, she turns to sadomasochistic practices during sex with her boyfriend , who soon cheats on her with the maid. Nicolas drops out of college and has gay group sex in his room. In contrast to the father, the mother cannot come to terms with the homosexuality of her son and seduces him to convert him to heterosexuality. When the daughter finds out about it, she tries to seduce her father, who remains inaccessible.
Due to the incidents with daughter and son, the mother goes to a four-day group therapy in which the father does not want to participate. Meanwhile, he dreams of being surprised by his family, Maria and her husband for his birthday and then shooting them all. When his wife calls him and tells him that the rat is to blame for the changes in the family, he kills the animal in the microwave and eats it for dinner.
When the family returns from group therapy, the father, who has meanwhile transformed himself into a life-size rat, attacks them. Sophie finally manages to stab her rat father with a kitchen knife.
In the final scene, the remaining family members as well as Maria and her husband gather at the father's grave. The changed constellation can be recognized by the separate appearance in pairs: The mother appears arm in arm with Maria, the housemaid, who has already come out as a lesbian during the course of the film . Nicolas appears with his partner Abdu, and Sophie, who can walk again - albeit on crutches - has apparently reconciled with her boyfriend David. When the couple leave the cemetery again, a white rat appears and walks around on the grave slab.
criticism
“A black comedy staged in the style of a television sitcom that plays with surreal and psychoanalytic symbols and cannot deny the role model Luis Buñuel. The honesty of the world shown is seldom broken, mainly because the dialogues lack speed and esprit. "
“Frivolity, horror, blackest humor. Yet the whole thing does not cause shock or thrills. The laughing muscles are hardly stimulated either. In return, an unavoidable yawn reflex develops over time. Why? Because the film mixes everything: dream, illusion, elements of civil fright theater, science fiction, horror. His motto: anything goes . And when everything is possible, everything somehow loses its tension. "
Web links
- Sitcom in the Internet Movie Database (English)