Esther Zuckerman

Let's also acknowledge that Depardieu's breakout was in the movie Going Places, which is basically just about a fucking contest.

I'm sure a bunch of French listeners are going to explain how I'm not paying proper respects to Going Places.

Yeah.

Right.

Well, you're like, there's French comedies that are like based on very retrograde cultural, socioeconomic, racial stereotypes.

Right.

And then regional stereotypes as well.

Bonvenu le Chiti, which is like the biggest French comedy of all time.

I think it has not been beaten since.

But then there's, like, you will go to France, and there will be giant billboards for a movie that is just, like, four firmly middle-aged actors wearing, like, suits and dresses, making faces.

And you're like, what's that?

And it's like, it's been number one five weeks in a row.

It's called, like, you know, the fucking fart family.

No, it's like, it's called about, like, a...

Right, exactly.

And you're like, what's it about?

And you're like, it's kind of just about like two couples have a dinner.

Right.

But then it finds out that they've all slept with each other.

But some of them are like these kind of classical, almost like stagey French farces.