Le Père-Noël est une benne à ordures

Guillaume Poix has taken his inspiration from the text and created his own version of a New Year's Eve where everything burns with acid. In this contemporary, resolutely trashy version, we laugh beyond the frightening, the incorrect and the immoral.

Le père noël est une ordure burned up the stage, shattered the screen and breathed new life into theatre on the Boulevards in Paris. Forty years after this legendary New Year's Eve, Guillaume Poix takes his inspiration from this great classic of French popular comedy to offer his version of a New Year's Eve where everything burns with the acidity of comedy.
Distresse-Amitié: Pierre and Thérèse answer the phones of the desperate*. Monsieur Preskovich rolls his cakes under his armpits, Katia dances moribund slows alone, Josette marries X and Félix plays a violent Santa Claus. The characters and lines from the show turned film are part of our shared culture. In 2022, empathy and benevolence no longer have any meaning, they are only good for sʼauto-parody in the personal development section of bookshops. Charity is disqualified. Humanism is dead, the human dying. Social categories stare at each other. The truth is a conspiracy. Preventing suicide is now an anti-ecological act. In this delightful dystopia, we laugh - with Thérèse, Pierre, Josette, Katia, Félix and Monsieur Preskovich - beyond the scare, the incorrect, the immoral.
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Warning - sexual, physical and verbal violence
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