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Monsieur Naphtali

Monsieur Naphtali

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 4, 1999

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

35%

Original Title

Monsieur Naphtali

Production Companies

Film Par Film, TF1 Films Production

Director

Olivier Schatzky

Description

Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he finds his way to Paris, where a woman taking surveys takes pity on him and brings him home for a meal and a bed for the night. Naphtali finds himself spending the evening with the survey woman, her brother who works in publishing, his lovely but unhappy wife, an alcoholic doctor, and his wife, an ill-tempered judge. In a simple and unpretentious manner, Naphtali forces them all to open up about themselves and discuss elements of their lives that they usually prefer to avoid.