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Feature Trailer Reel Étienne Chatiliez Commentary Photo Gallery Colour Booklet Biographies/Filmographies: Étienne Chatiliez/Eric Berger Andre Dussollier/Eric Berger Scene Selection Moving Menu
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Booklet, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Tanguy is a clever but perpetual student still living at home with his parents at age 28. He treats his parents' house as the proverbial hotel and to their dismay entertains women friends in his bedroom. Tanguy's parents want him out but can't bring themselves to tell him so instead they start a secret campaign to drive him out of the family home. ...Tanguy ( Tanguy )
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tanguy - an excellent French comedy,
By Chris&PattyQR (North West) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tanguy [DVD] (DVD)
"Tanguy" is a 28 year old college lecturer... still living with his parents. The film focuses on his parents' increasingly desperate attempts to get their son to (literally) move on. You can't blame them - Tanguy treats their flat like a hotel and causes no end of sleep depravation for his parents by frequently bringing home "company"... well, you get the idea. The revenge tactics employed by his parents are hilarious, and range from the deliciously petty to the strangely dark. The cast are all superb - Tanguy's emotional shallowness makes it rather easy for you enjoy seeing his parents get their own back. A snappy script is thankfully unhampered by the subtitling - in fact I'd say subtitles work much better in this case, dubbing would have lost half the comedy. Overall, a fantasically enjoyable film.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Staying in the nest,
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This review is from: Tanguy [DVD] (DVD)
Tanguy was a huge it in France but never travelled to the English-speaking world. It's a slow starter, but once the film hits its stride it's often very funny, with Andre Dussolier and Sabine Azema's attempts to get their 28-year-old son to leave home escalating from childish pranks to make his life Hell to legal action (with the judge helpfully providing Dussolier with the name of some hoods to beat up the lad). Not great and a little overlong, but it is very entertaining.
Extras are limited to a stills gallery and a couple of trailers, but the DVD offers a decent widescreen transfer.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cruel and smart,
By Moon Godess (France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tanguy [DVD] (DVD)
Tanguy is another masterpiece of French humour.
A nice and wealthy couple has a son... Did I say "a son"? Sorry. I meant "THE son" you have always dreamed of. Tanguy is smart and polite. He's humble and wise. He speaks several languages and has done as many doctorates. He is (not) really handsome and women can't get over him. BUT he is also 28 years old and still lives with mommy and daddy. And they cannot stand this situation anymore. Instead of simply telling him to go away, they find a much funnier (and complicated) solution. They just make his life at home a hell. As the movie goes, they get more and more inventive. The first time I saw this movie, I hated it. I thought it was merely cruel. Then I watched it again a few years later and I loved it. It is extremelly sarcastic and well imagined. Unlike the Diner de Cons, for instance, you don't grow found of the main character. So each time you see him suffer, you are not torn between pleasure and guilt. It is funny, it is cruel, it is cynic : it is French. Don't take my word for it, watch it. ;)
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