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Review

by Julie Rigg

This is the latest comedy from the people who brought you The Dinner Guest. Yep, when the French do farce they don't muck around. Dany Boon writes, directs and stars as chief yokel in this broad comedy about a postal official (Kad Merad) transferred against his will to manage a post office in the far north of France, where the locals speak a dialect called Schti. The film milks these regional prejudices and dialect jokes quite successfully, it moves well enough, and its final episode of broad farce, when the manager's wife comes to visit, is good fun. It's a mystery to me though why this film has been breaking French box office records... they must be desperate for a laugh. I'd just call it pleasant fun.

Director: Dany Boon
Cast: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoe Felix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Ann Marivin, Philippe Duquesne, Guy Lecluyse
Producer: Claude Berri, Jerome Seydoux
Script: Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier
Cinematographer: Pierre Aim
Editor: Luc Barnier, Julie Delord
Music: Philippe Rombi
Running time: 106
Australian distributor: Hopscotch
Language: French
Classification: M