There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not.
Is it worth your time? If you like watching people scream in hallways and hide under beds, you’ll probably have a blast. If you prefer your comedies to have, I don't know, a little bit of quiet, stay far away. It’s loud. It’s frantic. It’s very, very French. This whole thing is based on a Georges Feydeau play, and you...
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"Is it worth your time? If you like watching people scream in hallways and hide under beds, you’ll probably have a blast. If you prefer your comedies to have, I don't know, a little bit of quiet, stay far away. It’s loud. It’s frantic. It’s very, very French. This whole thing is based on a Georges Feydeau play, and you can really feel the stage floorboards creaking under the weight of all these people running in and out of doors. It feels like a very long game of musical chairs where everyone is..."
Marc Allégret, Maurice Desvallières, Jacques Prévert, Pierre Prévert, Georges Feydeau
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