I saw it first on TV and thought it was a good movie, good enough to remember it from hundreds of short movies I see on TV. It is full of surprises but not heavy stuff, with great shots, funny actors (I lam a fan of hervé Pauchon, who played in many Jean-Pierre Mocky movies), though I thought that maybe it was not as funny as it was intended for this kind of turnabout comedy and maybe not original enough in the visual aspect. Later I saw it again in a festival of short movies and this time I had much more fun, shared with all the audience. People were laughing and reacting in the theater, some of them even applauding some scenes. A very different feeling than I had in my first viewing. Some high points in the movie are very surprising but only with an audience I could enjoy them, even at my third viewing in a small festival in Paris, without the surprise effect. Definitely the kind of movie not to watch alone.

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