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The Three Brothers

The Three Brothers (Les Trois Frères)

Movie · 1995 · 15 people

Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan wrote and directed the 1995 French comedy The Three Brothers (Les Trois Frères in French), starring in it alongside the third member of their trio, Pascal Légitimus. It was the first feature film by Les Inconnus, a comic group that had already made its name on television with the sketch show La Télé des Inconnus. The film was well received by press and public alike.

The story follows the Latour brothers, Didier, Bernard and Pascal, who count on a three-million-franc inheritance after their mother dies. A codicil strips them of the fortune, and the trio sinks into debt and drifts into crime to escape its creditors, all while having to look after Didier's young son Michaël, played by six-year-old Antoine du Merle.

Released at the end of December 1995, the film sold more than seven million tickets and topped the French box office for the year. On 3 February 1996, at the 21st César ceremony, it won Best First Film. Claude Berri was among the producers. A sequel directed by the three leads, Les Trois Frères : Le Retour, followed nineteen years later, in February 2014.

DirectorDidier Bourdon, Bernard Campan
Production companyRenn Productions

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Jacky Nercessian Jacky Nercessian Actor · 75 years old Michel Berto Actor · died at 56 Didier Bourdon Bernard Campan Pascal Légitimus Antoine du Merle Anne Jacquemin Marine Jolivet Annick Alane Pierre Meyrand Isabelle Gruault Bernard Farcy Élie Semoun Henri Courseaux Jean-François Pastout

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

It is a French comedy with a small child in the story, so it looks like a family pick. Still, three brothers in debt drifting into crime is at the heart of it. Young children may miss some of the jokes, and might take some of the behaviour as something to copy. It is fine to watch with kids of middle-school age and up. Its light touch on brotherhood and responsibility is a plus.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Brothers brought together by the hope of an inheritance and landing themselves in trouble is a set-up Yeşilçam loved too. What sets this film apart is that it adds the responsibility of a small child to the mix; in my view that warmth beneath the comedy is a reminder that good comedy is about more than laughs. Selling more than seven million tickets in France shows how open audiences still are to heartfelt comedy. As the first feature by a troupe that came from television sketches, it is a solid start, and a sequel nineteen years later is no surprise.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

The television sketch background of Les Inconnus is both the film's strength and its weakness. The trio's ensemble rapport and comic timing feel like the product of long collaboration, but in the move from sketch logic to feature length, scenes can at times play like numbers strung together. Combining debt, crime and the obligation to look after a child in a single plot is a smart screenwriting decision that pulls this looseness together, turning the comedy into a chain where each crisis forces the next step. Press and public embracing it at once, the César for Best First Film and the top spot at the French box office for the year are the reward for that balance.

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