Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: laughs guaranteed at this cult comedy from Splendid!
There’s a slim chance you’ve never seen Santa Claus Is Trash. But if, as incredible as it may seem, you have never taken a look at this absolute classic of French laughter, then good news: you have the opportunity to spend your evening of December 25 in front of the hilarious and timeless comedy of Splendid !
Released in theaters in 1982, Santa Clause is garbage, a film adaptation of the play of the same name created three years earlier by the Splendid theater troupe, immerses the viewer between the walls of the Parisian SOS distress-friendship hotline. A permanence disrupted on Christmas Eve by the arrival of eccentric marginal characters who cause chain disasters.
Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré (who would sign Les Visiteurs a good decade later), Le Père Noël est une ordure, a fairly dark satire of society under the guise of humor, was a great success in theaters with almost 1 .6 million spectators in attendance. But the comedy led by Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Marie-Anne Chazel, Josiane Balasko and Anémone acquired its status as a cult film as it was broadcast on television.
Many lines from Santa Claus is trash, a tasty comedy with fierce humor, have become true classics to the point that they can slip into our daily conversations. If you watch the film this evening, in addition to having a lot of fun, you will have confirmation of it! Do you doubt it??? That’s it, yes…
Tonight on France 2 at 9:10 p.m.
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