Serial (Bad) Weddings

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Serial (Bad) Weddings
File:Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon dieu? poster.jpg
French theatrical release poster
Directed by Philippe de Chauveron
Produced by Romain Rojtman
Written by Philippe de Chauveron
Guy Laurent
Screenplay by Philippe de Chauveron
Guy Laurent
Starring Christian Clavier
Chantal Lauby
Ary Abittan
Frédéric Chau
Frédérique Bel
Élodie Fontan
Music by Marc Chouarain
Cinematography Vincent Mathias
Edited by Sandro Lavezzi
Production
company
Les films du 24
Distributed by UGC Distribution
Release dates
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  • 16 April 2014 (2014-04-16) (France)
Running time
 97 minutes
Country France
Language French
Budget $12.8 million
Box office $148.5 million[1]

Serial (Bad) Weddings (French: Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?) is a French comedy film directed by Philippe de Chauveron released in 2014.

Plot

Claude Verneuil, a Gaullist notary, and his wife Marie, a Catholic bourgeois from Chinon, are parents of four daughters: Isabelle, Odile, Ségolène, and Laure. The three eldest are already married to men, each one of a different religion and a different ethnic origin: Isabelle married Rashid Ben Assem, an Algerian Muslim lawyer, Odile married David Benichou, a Sephardi Jew entrepreneur, and Ségolène married Chao Ling, a Han Chinese banker. The Verneuils pretend to accept their sons-in-laws but have had a hard time hiding their comfortability in accepting people into the family from outside the community. A family meeting is spoiled because of the awkwardness and clichés about race and religion, stated as much by the father as by the sons-in-laws who even exchange insulting communitarian views to and about each other.

The Verneuils, in despair, put all their hope in their youngest daughter Laure, that she will bring home a Catholic partner, going so far as to arrange an "accidental" meeting with a young Catholic man who works in finance. However, Laure reveals that she had chosen a Catholic partner named Charles Kofi, and wishes to marry him. Laure's parents are overjoyed and readily forgive his occupation as a comedian and actor. On the first meeting, however, they are shocked when they discover that the man to whom their daughter is engaged is a West African from the Ivory Coast. Claude begins to sink into depression and spends his time cutting down trees and fishing. Meanwhile, the three sons-in-law get together and plan to stop Laure's marriage out of fear that their friendship will be threatened by a fourth member.

When the Verneuils meet with the Kofis, Marie and Charles' mother Madeline get along well, but Claude finds that Charles' father André is an intolerant, tough, stingy military man and extremely resentful of white colonisation and white supremacy in Africa. Both the groom's and bride's party come head to head and the fathers' disapproval and racist views heat up the situation. On the day before the wedding, André goes out with Claude fishing and unexpectedly find common ground in their dislikes, as both are Gaullists (Charles de Gaulle), and develop a friendship. After catching a pike, the two go to a restaurant, become drunk with wine and are arrested from the pâtisserie. Laure is notably upset at this and boards a train, deciding to end the marriage; André and Claude manage to leave prison with the help of the sons-in-law and persuade Laure to marry Charles. Laure agrees and the film ends with a happy marriage and a night of the family dancing coupé-décalé.

Cast

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Cast members at the Cannes in 2014

Production

Although set in Chinon, the film was mainly filmed in Paris and in Normandy. A few shots of the castle in Chinon were taken on 10 December 2013.[2]

Reception

File:Frederique Bel Elodie Fontan Cannes 2014.jpg
Frédérique Bel and Élodie Fontan at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Critical response

The film received positive reviews with an average grade of 4.2/5 from AlloCiné for over 9,200 votes on May 30, 2014[3] as well as press critics with an average grade of 3.7/5 for 7 comments.[3]

Box office

The film attracted over 200,000 viewers in 621 cinemas on the first day. The film received the "Label des spectateurs UGC" two months before its release,[4] like have received other French successes from the box office such as The Intouchables and The Artist. The film grossed a total of US$174.1 million internationally.[5]

Accolades

Award / Film Festival Category Recipients and nominees Result
28th European Film Awards European Film Academy People's Choice Award for Best European Film Serial (Bad) Weddings Nominated
29th Goya Awards Best European Film Serial (Bad) Weddings Nominated
20th Lumières Awards Best Screenplay Philippe de Chauveron and Guy Laurent Won

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=14040
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