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The Wing or the Thigh

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Director
  
Claude Zidi

Country
  
France

7.2/10
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Duration
  

Language
  
French

The Wing or the Thigh movie poster

Release date
  
27 October 1976

Writer
  
Claude Zidi (scenario and dialogue), Michel Fabre (collaboration)

The Wing or the Thigh, from the French L'aile ou la cuisse ([lɛ.lu.la.kɥis] is a 1976 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Louis de Funès and Coluche.

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Plot

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Charles Duchemin (Louis de Funès) is the editor of an internationally known restaurant guide. After being appointed to the Académie française, Duchemin decides to retire as a restaurant critic and trains his son Gérard (Coluche) to continue the family business. However, Gérard Duchemin is more interested in his true passion—the circus—than high cuisine. Soon, however, Charles' plans to retire are complicated by the arrival of Jacques Tricatel (Julien Guiomar), the owner of a company of mass-produced food. Fearing for the future of high cuisine, Charles and his son strive to ruin Tricatel's company in any way they can. This movie is an allegory of the antagonism between USA culture and French culture as it was seen by French people in the 70s.

Critical reception

The film received a mixed critical reception.

Awards

The film received a Goldene Leinwand (Golden Screen) in Germany in 1978.

Trivia

  • The Duchemin Guide is likely a reference to the real life Michelin Guide.
  • Jacques Tricatel is likely a reference to Jacques Borel.
  • This is the first movie of Louis de Funès after his double heart attack of 1975, that kept him from playing in Gérard Oury's Le Crocodile, a film that ended up never being made.

    • References

    The Wing or the Thigh Wikipedia
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