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Le Diner De Cons (Original French Version with English Subtitles)

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Before it became a movie the dinning game was a very successful play in France for many years. Jacques Villeret one of the greatest French comedians (he died in January 2005) was playing the same character. When it came out in French theaters in 1998 it was even more successful than the Titanic! No wonder since it is a great comedy. Almost the entire movie takes place in an appartment in Paris and the sequence of funny events is unstoppable.
As the movie unfolds it makes you hate arrogance way more than stupidity, although who is smart and who is stupid is an open subject at the end of the movie.
It seems that stupidity comes out victoriously when faced with arrogance.
I highly recommend this movie.

I am a French professor and this is the only French movie that I consistently show to my (mostly American) students because it's hilarious and even the most reticent students end up laughing out loud and loving it!

This is an,initially unsuspecting, hilarious comedy, based mainly on a sweet and naive character. What begins as a mean-spirited "make-fun-of-the-dope" idea, develops into a laugh-out-loud, "we're totally rooting for this sweet guy", comedy. We first saw this movie on a plane returning from France, and we swear the whole plane was actually vibrating with the ensuing laughter!!

At a monthly dinner meeting, a group of intellectuals compete to introduce the greatest fool, but things do not go according to the plan. Do not be deterred by the French dialog and English subtitles. After viewing this extremely funny movie, you will rush to share it with your friends.

My college French major daughter had to watch this for her upper level conversation class. She told me that the whole class would have been rolling on the floor with laughter if there had only been enough room in the classroom. If you are a conservative concerned with morals, as I am, you have to use your own judgement about the age at which you want your kids watching this. There is no nudity, and there are no "bedroom scenes"; but the plot does center around the habit of many Frenchmen of having a wife and a mistress, and there is some language. That being said, the film hilariously illustrates that "what goes around comes around" and leaves you wondering who the real idiot(s) is/are. There are subtitles for the conversation, and the acting is excellent. If you are a student of the French language, you will probably be able to pick up a lot of the conversation. Highly, highly recommended with the reservations stated above--the kind of movie you can watch over and over and laugh every time.

This is quite entertaining. I enjoyed the story and hearing the French language spoken. I read the English subtitles, and after a while you get really fast at it! I love a good comedy and this fits the bill. Enjoyable and funny!

I am a self-professed comedy hater, but I loved "Le Diner De Cons" and have watched it many times since buying it. Sly, subtle, hilarious, outrageous, it is the perfect treat for when you find yourself in need of a funny bone tickle. Highly recommended. Great to watch with significant others and friends.

This film requires repeated viewing and never fails to amuse. If anything it ends too soon, almost surprisingly with the delightful thrill that it leaves you wanting more, as any true bit of showmanship must do. THe tale is so intricate and unravelling and involving, that you really grow to care for the fate of each of the characters and want so much to see that things turn out all right for each of them.

Of course it is the height of arrogance for that group to establish itself as an intellectual aristocracy far beyond any mere mortal foibles and foolishness and capable of choosing for its own entertainment each week an idiot to share at their dinner together. And of course members of that very elite group are exposed as being the most helpless and foolish idiots around. But, wait, there is more, much more.

This movie has much to say to the society we now have in the USA, and must be observed. FOllow it carefully. You may feel it too condensed and quick if raised on deadly slow American sitcoms. Just watch it once again, and it grows on you.

I first caught the very end late at night while visiting Montreal years ago, and was so frustrated it ended so quickly without indication of title. Imagine my joy to find the little French film I ignorantly chose form a discount bin in a Mexican supermarket turns out to be the same endearing movie. This is one to keep on that pile of movies, along with Seven Samurai or Grand Illusion or Tre Fratelli or A Particular Day or Ghost Dog or The Man from the Train, The Gospel According to Saint MAtthew, etc. etc., of things you know you will love to see again when you don't know what you want to see and are too tired to read your James Joyce commentary. I wish I had money to get all of the things on that list of films to see again, la Belle et la Bete, Black Orfee, etc

This is a really great film and one which rewards repeated viewing. I do hope that couple gets back together again thanks to and despite that idiot of the week's interjection. Oh, why does it end so soon! This one really does have the discipline to begin right inside the frantic action without much exposition, and to end before the action is complete.

What a great movie! Try it; you'll like it! Again, I have a version with only Spanish subtitles, and cannot speak for this version's compression and translation.

Le Diner de Cons was one of the most funniest movies
that I have seen in a long time. The purchase came
earlier then expected, in excellent condition (new) and
neatly packaged. It seems that the French have the greatest
gift for humor and their movies prove it. Thank you
for sellling French movies with English sub-titles.
Although, I do speak English, I like the French-speaking
voices to listen to, since I am trying to learn the
language. At first, it was a bit of a distraction to
try to watch a movie and have to read the English, but,
after a few good French movies, I am not even aware now,
that I am watching, listening, and reading. I reccommend
buying French movies and having the greatest enjoyment
possible. Moxiewalk

This was a pretty good movie, i believe the dumb guy "Pignon" is a little too dumb. But very good acting, good script, good comedy all in all.
The DVD has English subtitles and translates pretty well.