The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sadomasochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband. And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
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"Sitcom" deals with an interesting story of a dysfunctional family. It veers from fantasy to reality.The family of "Sitcom" is tolerant-in this family, you have to be. The mother discovers a unique way of trying to treat her sons' attraction to men, and the daughter tries to branch out. Won't get any more detailed. It does show a brother and sister being very close, bathing together and talking about sex (but not doing it). There are disfuntional families like this, that's the not so funny part.If "Sitcom" was about a normal family, nobody would watch it. Shakespeare only wrote about disfuntional families. On the other hand, what is a normal family?
It is a non-coherent movie with every imaginable distortion crammed into a couple of rooms and a wasted hour. Controversy can only get a movie some cheap and shortlived popularity. For this movie, even this is not true. Alors!! avoid it and save precious time.
I stumbled onto this movie late one night on SBS (Australia's foreign movie channel specialist) and I thought it was going to be another perverted French film. Well, I was right, but I actually enjoyed this exaggerated look into family dysfunction. It all begins with the father of the family bringing home a pet rat, to which his wife reacts to in disgust. His son, Nicolas and daughter, Sophie, are rather indifferent to the creature. That night at dinner, the nerdy son announces his homosexuality and then in the privacy of his bedroom, has it on with the maids husband, Abdu. The daughter soon jumps out of a window to become a paraplegic and indulges in sadomachoism and bondage with her boyfriend. The mother indulges in a bit of incestuous sex with her son. Dysfunction with a capital D! And just when you thought the father hadn't been affected by the arrival of the rat... well, I won't spoil the ending but I know you'll either be pleasantly surprised of pleasantly disgusted. This movie is superb. It has a great cast, and even though it is a tan unbelievable, it is thoroughly entertaining! ***1/2/*****
I think all the others viewers notes tells us about the story and the feelings that this movie gives to us. I sure like it! This movie takes risk, and that's the kind of stuff I love about movies. The best of the genre always comes from Europe, never in Hollywood. Sitcom should be to the 1990's what Hitchcock's What about Harry was in the 1950's. See this strange little piece of good cinema!
