What if 11 chaotic weirdos saved Paris from being boring? Absolute mayhem.
Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, one French and one American, decided to administer a sedative to all Parisians, proceeding by arrondissement, which they injected in single, double or triple doses. Soon, the whole of Paris was injected. Calm, good humor and kindness returned, but 11 refused to be treated and remained the only Parisian not to have been treated.
Production
Gloriously unhinged 1965 Paris location shooting.
Writing
Bureaucratic satire that somehow predicted modern wellness culture.
Director
Pierre Armand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during France's post-New Wave comedy boom, this parodies both Gaullist modernization anxieties and America's growing pharmaceutical optimism.
Director Pierre Armand made only three features; this was his attempt to out-Farce the Farce masters after apprenticing under Sacha Guitry.
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