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Condoms are Funny in Any Language
"The Closet" is a farce about luckless Francois Pignon (Daniel
Auteuil), a pale accountant at a condom factory whose wife has left
him, whose son is bored by him, and whose coworkers make jokes at
his expense. When Francois learns that he is about to lose his job,
he contrives a plan: anonymously, he sends doctored pictures of himself
living it up in a gay bar to the company. His bosses are worried about
a lawsuit, and Pignon gets to keep his job. Then, of course, his plan
spins out of control. Auteil, a French Robert DeNiro with an unrivaled
deadpan, is excellent, and Gerard Depardieu hams it up in the role
of Pignon's homophobic rugby coach. |
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