L'Invité 

It‘s business as usual in the polished world of French farce, where it‘s always open season on the tasteless and clueless; and heartless cads have the best lines. L‘Invité takes a brisk spin through some well-tried scenarios, and though it can‘t touch the wicked brilliance of the film it most resembles, Francis Veber‘s Dinner Game, there‘s amusement to be had in watching four consummate farceurs acting as if it does. Unemployed for three years, Gérard (Daniel Auteuil) is getting desperate when he is offered a job in Indonesia. Determined to make a good impression on his new boss (Hippolyte Girardot), Gérard invites him to dinner. Which is odd, considering that his wife Colette (Valérie Lemercier), sweet dope though she may be, is a terrible cook and a gormless host. Help is on hand in the form of suave Alexandre (Thierry Lhermitte), their PR guru neighbour. Needless to say, Gérard and Colette are not the only ones in line for a make-over. — BG