Kitchen with Apartment

(1993)

★ 7 IMDb · 191 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1993

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: France

Director: Philippe Muyl

Cast: Zabou Breitman, Жан-Пьер Бакри, Agnès Jaoui, Sam Karmann, Жан-Пьер Дарруссен, Laurent Benoît, Marine Labouyssarie, Quentin Hue

Plot

Jacques and Martine, an ordinary bourgeois couple, invite to dinner a friend whom they have not seen the last ten years. Since then he has become a media star and everything has to go just right at dinner.

Martine and Jacques knew their friend before he became an important television personality, but have not seen him for over ten years. They are hospitable people - witness the fact that they have been putting up with having writer Georges be their informal roommate, as he sleeps on their living-room sofa off and on over the years whenever he is between jobs. They have invited their friend and his wife Charlotte over for dinner, and are on pins and needles, as they want everything to go just right. Instead, George allows his bitterness that Charlotte, his ex-girlfriend, married a success to overwhelm him, and Martine and Jacques are apalled when their brother, who hasn't a penny and is deeply in debt, persuades their guest of honor to join him in a high-stakes poker game.