Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

leplatypus In France, we have a tradition of humorists doing plays, shows, TV and then doing movies. A lot of times, they are less funny in the big screen so this movie is rather an exception. Here the band is called « the not known » (already a pun) and their movie is a great comedy and beyond a tremendous depiction of France and French people : for one time, the action takes place in Paris and in the country ! Their characters comes from different worlds and they interact with more diverse people. With all this, we can see this that France is not the peaceful paradise politics want it to be : french can be racists, blind to poverty or quick to denounce. On the other hand, the common people is cut from law and justice : it's a field for experts and nobody understands it. So that's the big paradox of this movie : under the laughs, it's an acid attack and everybody likes it ! But it's also a great film about familial values and has some great moving moments ! Twenty years later, they have a sequel : as the country has getting worst, it's should be interesting to see it and i hope they follow up the stories with the child and the lone mother they started here.

o_cedar Just plain hilarious... Even though the last 15 minutes are a bit less comical (you have to find an ending to these comedies... it's very often the less fun part), you need to see this movie... The actors are good and a lot of jokes made me go wild... even though I am unsure of their worth if they are to be translated... For all who speak French it's a must!! 9/10

dbdumonteil It's the "Inconnus"'s first movie for the screen and they made a funny and entertaining comedy. But it's not sufficient to consider it as a masterpiece. Three men who are very different are discovering that they are brothers. They 're also discovering that they're going to inherit a fortune that used to belong to their mother. But the inheritance is cancelled and they must escape from the police, the notaries, the bailiffs. Now that they are in the street, they've got to beg for but at the same time, they're learning to know each other better.... The film won the Oscar for the First Best film in 1996 but did it really deserve it? The "Inconnus"'s performance is quite convincing and each of their character's personnality is well portrayed. It's a pity that they often ham it up. The screenplay is a bit of a mess and I am under the impression that it's a pretext for a succession of sketches where they are talking about leading subjects nowadays: unemployement, immigration etc.... Due to a big number of these sketches, the film never seem to end. Moreover, the secondary and minors actors are bad used. On one hand, they are left to themselves, like the notary; on the other hand, they're falling into the caricature like Rougemont who is the man who puts Didier Latour up, or the racist bailiff. I also noticed that most of the actors were talking very fastly and so it was difficult to understand them. Nevertheless, the film is often funny thanks to the dialogues and the comical situations but they aren't deprived of vulgarity. To sum up: a film which could have been better if it had been more controled.

stilgar-4 This is an excellent comedy by "Les Inconnus", it was very successful in France and I recommend it to everyone that knows a bit about the french culture.