Le Prénom

What's in a Name?

Session Times

Sunday September 23 - 4:00pm

What’s in a Name

Le Prénom: “A lively take on love, friendship and baby-naming.”   Dinner date becomes dinner disaster in French cinema’s box office comedy hit of the year. “An amusing and well-acted French farce in the pure tradition of boulevard classics such as The Dinner Game.” — Hollywood Reporter

Uproar ensues when a dinner party guest announces the name proposed for his baby son. Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière took no risks adapting their stage comedy hit for the screen. They imported all but one of the original cast and kept the action, with the exception of a zippy prologue, to a single apartment. It proved a sound policy: their film is French cinema’s box office hit of 2012.

“A bunch of 40-something buddies find their dinner date transformed into a dinner disaster in What’s in a Name, an amusing and well-acted French farce in the pure tradition of boulevard classics such as The Dinner Game… As in many such a farce… the twists and quid pro quos ultimately force the various characters to face truths about themselves and one another, and nothing is ever quite as bad as it seems. With plenty of rehearsal time on stage, the cast delivers all the zingers and insults with ease.” — Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter

Vincent, la quarantaine triomphante, va être père pour la première fois. Invité à dîner chez Élisabeth et Pierre, sa sœur et son beau-frère, il y retrouve Claude, un ami d’enfance.
En attendant l’arrivée d’Anna, sa jeune épouse éternellement en retard, on le presse de questions sur sa future paternité dans la bonne humeur générale... Mais quand on demande à Vincent s’il a déjà choisi un prénom pour l’enfant à naître, sa réponse plonge la famille dans le chaos.

1. Parce que l'adaptation est très fidèle à la pièce.
2. Pour connaître le fameux prénom...
3. Pour les comédiens : excellents.
4. Pour les dialogues, intelligents, drôles, brillants

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