pretentious side under wraps.
fruitlessly auditioning one or two candidates for the position, he Bruno (Dany Boon), a chatty trivia buff.
Though it's not hard to see where all this is going, Auteuil meticulously developed, leading up to an ingenious climax involving an antique urn and a TV quiz show.
The only flaw in the script sidelined as her character.
Leconte's direction is fairly subdued, despite Xavier Dermeliac's hurdy-gurdy score: the colours are cool, and there are relatively few laughs up until the halfway point, when the comic situations have had time to build. An imaginary American remake (starring, let's say, Robert de Niro and Adam Sandler) would homoerotic innuendoes but might also be a bit livelier.
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