Mon Pere ce Heros

1992 / France / 105 min. / Colour

Director: Gérard Lauzier

Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob

A Depardieu comedy has become a regular feature at The Fleapit and this season it’s the turn of a typically French romp in which the newly divorced Depardieu takes his teenage daughter on holiday to Mauritius where said daughter falls for a local lad and, in order to impress him, tells him first that her father is her lover, then that he is a mercenary and finally that he is a spy. When these stories spread to the other holiday-makers and Depardieu is forced to go along with the deception the fun really starts…