Bertrand Blier directs Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier and Jean Carmet in this farce where a potential murderer’s wife is murdered much to the inconvenience of the police inspector upstairs.

A very cold, intellectual comedy set in a city where murder is so commonplace so as to be treated as an impolite transgression. I get the central jokes about our blasé acceptance of death as a fact of life and living anonymously within a rat race full of largely unseen people. But it is academic after a while, a set-up that allows for very little wit or emotional connection to the deadpan farce that unfolds with distancing dream logic.

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