I make my annual trek to Cinefranco, a festival featuring the best of current French cinema. I am entertained by Halal Five O’s Inspector Nerh-Nerh, a Franco-Algerian version of Inspector Clouseau. This style of over the top comedy is so well done by the French--think ‘That Man from Rio” and Jacques Tati’s “Mon Oncle” and "Dîner des Cons". While a good laugh is welcome, I also appreciate the old French dramas, which seldom deviates from the plot of a man and two women, or its variation: two men and one woman (think ‘Jules & Jim’).
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