Monday 18 July 2011

The Placard (Le Placard)





François (Daniel Auteuil) is an accountant at a condom factoryHowever, he discovers that is going to be fired by management. The solution to avoid the dismissing comes from his neighbor Belone, who advises him to pretend to be gay to sue the company if it tries to fire him, alleging discrimination at work. This will mark the beginning of a whole series of misunderstandings and setbacksfor the poor François. 

Written and directed by Francis Veber.
Country: France.
Year: 2000.
Duration: 84 min.
Cast: Daniel Auteuil (François Pignon), Gérard Depardieu (FélixSantini), Thierry Lhermitte (Guillaume), Michèle Laroque (Bertrand), Michel Aumont (Belone), Jean Rochefort (Kopel), Alexandra Vandernoot (Christine), Stanislas Crevillén (Franck ), Edgar Givry (Mathieu), Thierry Ashanti (Victor), Armelle Deutsch (Ariane), Irina Ninova (Martine).
Production: Alan Poire.
Music: Vladimir Cosma.
Photography: Luciano Tovoli.
Mounting: Georges Klotz.
Costumes: Jacqueline Bouchard.
Decorated: Hugues Tissandier

Trailer: 



Great Comedy, enjoy it!


17 comments:

  1. sounds good. but i cant stand gerard depardu

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  2. I do love me a good comedy.

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  3. Looks good I'll check to see if I can find it here

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  4. You had me at "condom factory"

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  5. hahaha what a great idea. It would be ironic if he wasn't using a condom while he was boning the girl at the end of the trailer...hit me back :D sevenfoldsin.blogspot.com

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  6. Heh, that's is one of the most random movies plots I've ever seen.

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  7. Didn't expect that for sure!

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  8. sometimes I wish that I could fluently speak other languages... there is so much I'm missing out on

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  9. I love comedy, I'll be sure to check it out!

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  10. i love french movies!
    nice and creative blog, i'll be following

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  11. Nice movie!Depardieu is one of my favourite actors

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  12. I love watching foreign cinema, cheers for the post, il follow to see if theres any new movies I can try get a hold of!

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  13. This looks like such a good film! I love French movies - they're always full of such funny mishaps. Definitely will rent this one soon =)

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  14. pretty clever idea but it's a bit too french

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  15. I love this movie!, i really laughed viewing it, Depardieu was fantastic!

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