Jacques Villeret

Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: The coronary with Louis de Funès - Danilo Heyer

If there's one instrument by which French cinema has risen to majestic heights, it's comedy. Whether this is due to the light-hearted national character that has bequeathed us, from the Tartuffe from Molière to Candide until Fatalist of Diderot, that strange blend of refined thought and humor; or whether it comes from something else, who cares; let's not hesitate, for once, to thank those people who alone could give birth to The seventh company, to Bronzés font du ski, at Dinner party, and La Soupe aux choux.