The Dinner Guest (L' Invité)
Fifty years old, after
90 minsFranceFrench with English subtitles
Comedy
- Director:
- Laurent Bouhnik ('24 Hours in the Life of a Woman')
- Writer:
- David Pharao
- Cast:
- Daniel AuteuilValerie LemercierThierry Lhermitte
The Dinner Guest (L' Invité) / Reviews
Hollywood Reporter
So similar are the basic ingredients of Laurent Bouhnik's "The Guest" to those of Francis Veber's 1998 smash hit "The Dinner Game" that this latest exercise in misanthropic farce might as well have been called "The Dinner Game: Second Helping." There is the same setup (a dinner to which an outsider has been invited), the same source (a successful stage play) and the same pleasure in humiliation. Even one of the stars is the same.
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