A Hasty Renovation

A Hasty Renovation

  • Overview
  • Cast
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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 1911

Runtime

0h 6m

Genres

Comedy

Original Title

Un ravalement précipité

Production Companies

Pathé Comica

Director

Romeo Bosetti

Description

Léontine helps her pal Rosalie (Sarah Duhamel) race against time to clean up a house after Rosalie’s boss, Baron von Hummen, announces that he and Madame will return home earlier than planned. They recruit workers and poach resources from a nearby construction site. As we see, it takes a village to tidy a house on short notice (or at least it should!), but there’s a limit to the capacities of even collective domestic labor. Accelerated productivity gives way to sheer physical anarchy and irreversible destruction. Dirt and debris pervade every surface—furniture and skin alike—leading to several unfortunate blackening gags.