This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.
Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure de Docteur Molyneux
This is a fun little French farce. You know it will start out fun when you get the preacher denouncing all of the sinful novels that have been published lately and then a serial killer who goes nuts saying these novels ruined his life.
I'm not sure if there's any point in digging too deep into it in this blog. There's quite a bit of satire here as you would probably expect. It may live in a specific time and place, but poking fun at things like greed, concern for self-image, false piety, mob mentality, drunkenness, and such are usually universal.
Entertaining the whole way through.
Rating: 8/10