variations of the threesome, a bad Blier

Pascal, a handsome ski instructor (Lhermitte, of course), and Micky, a nice DJ with an unattractive physique (Coluche, of course), fall in love with the same woman. Blier lazily explores the ménage à trois. Coluche, as a sad clown, manages to be touching.

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Pascal runs a sporting goods store in Courchevel. His best friend, Micky, is a disc jockey in a nightclub. Often in love, Pascal’s companion is Viviane. He decides to share it with Micky, but for the latter, Viviane is “his friend’s wife”…

Less provocative than Les Valseuses, less ironic than Prepare your handkerchiefs, this new variation by Bertrand Blier, on the theme, which is dear to him, of the ménage à trois, is a corrosive comedy of manners, bitter and quite cynical. Coluche is curiously responsible for personifying morality, facing a particularly disturbing Isabelle Huppert. Less comfortable than usual, the director observes, a