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Claude Zidie is a famous French comediographer who made 25 films, some of which I watched and liked them, so I decided to finally watch the famous film L’aile ou la cuisse, 1976, which turned out to be very good and sometimes even modern satirical comedy, well, they are all satirical.
The main character - restaurant critic Charles Duchman (Louis de Funes) is preparing to release his next collection dedicated to restaurants, which, he believes, should be the last before his retirement. He is going to pass on his business to his son Gerard (Coluche), not caring at all about the fact that his son actually has several other interests, he wants to be a clown, so the money given to him by his father, he has already spent some time on a traveling circus, in which he himself performs, Duchman misses everything out of his ears and does not want to listen to his son, who has repeatedly tried to tell him about it. One day, Duchman’s employees find a stranger in his office, posing as a plumber, who was sent to him by the famous manufacturer of cheap products Tricatel (Julien Guillaumard), who wants to find out the secrets of Duchman. Everything, however, is not quite successful, but after this event, Duchman eventually decides to agree to perform in a famous talk show, where he was invited many times, but he refused to go where his opponent will be Trikatel, and he thinks that he outsmarted the enemy. All sorts of culinary and clown adventures begin, as a result of which Duchman, after one incident with a small restaurateur who was once ruined by him, loses the ability to taste food, so his son must replace him on a talk show. Everything seems to end successfully for Duchman and a complete failure for Tricatel, but not everything is so simple - at a meeting where Duchmen is chosen as an academician, they are served cakes allegedly made according to Duchman's recipe, in one of which Duchman finds his watch, which he dropped on the conveyor at the Tricatel factory, where he and his son secretly penetrated.
Comedy was not bad, although not a masterpiece, of course, but I love satire, although here it can not be called subtle, but it is generally a rarity, and here Zidi also anticipated the emergence of artificial food, which is currently conquering the culinary market, now it is a very fashionable trend.