Séraphin ou les jambes nues

A delirious plunge into the absurd, 'Séraphin ou les jambes nues' dissects bourgeois propriety with the precision of a satirist armed with a pocketknife. Georges Biscot, as the beleaguered Séraphin, stumbles through a cascade of misfortunes that strip him not just of his trousers but of his social dignity. The film’s vaudeville chaos—equal parts slapstick and societal critique—unspools in a series of vignettes where every character’s hidden vice or secret desire surfaces with slapstick inevitability. Jeanne Rollette and Reynier orbit Biscot’s hapless hero with a mix of mischief and melancholy, their performances a masterclass in physical comedy. The narrative, a patchwork of farcical encounters and theatrical set pieces, weaponizes the trope of the ‘bare leg’ as a metaphor for the fragility of respectability. By the time Séraphin’s plight reaches its denouement, the film has transformed a simple wardrobe malfunction into a scathing indictment of class pretension and the performative nature of morality.