La grande lessive (!)

Curious subject at the beginning of the television (we are in 1968): a French teacher sabotages the television antennas of his students, because they are stupefied by them and sleep in class. So we are at the beginning of television. But it is a subject that could be transposed with reality TV or social networks.

It is obviously treated with the style of Jean-Pierre Mocky. With a great cast: Bourvil as a French teacher possessed by his mission, Francis Blanche as a sex-obsessed dentist, Michael Lonsdale as General De Gaulle's butler (in a series of jubilant scenes around alcohol in his apartment with his wife), Roland Dubillard as Bourvil's handyman sports teacher.

Let's add the policemen, stupid as often with Jean-Pierre Mocky. And let's not forget Jean Poiret always perfect as a fake ass and a high-flying liar.

The highlight of the film is Bourvil in a character far from his usual distributions where he is the clown of service. Here he is on a quest to ensure that his students learn and are not dumbed down by television.

A jubilant film that does not engender melancholy, with a slashed dramaturgy, made in Mocky.