Toujours seuls (1991)

Toujours seuls (1991). Toujours seuls: Directed by Gérard Mordillat. With Annie Girardot, Marius Colucci, Yan Epstein, Claude Evrard. A large family crams into a three-room flat in a drab suburb.Twelve people ,soon joined,out of the blue, by the prodigal son, released from jail.To make matters worse,the TV set , then the sofa and finally the refrigerator vanish into thin air.Neverthelesss, life goes on ,with mom's nervous breakdowns , dad's absences ;The daughter, Julie, an abandoned social worker,is always sobbing ; her sister , rehearsing the "Hebrew slaves chorus" is eagerly waiting for her drafted fiancee.

“Warning : fans of Annie GIRARDOT,beware! her appearance does not exceed fifteen minutes .u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Always aloneu0026quot; may seem an odd title for a movie in which twelve (and even thirteen with the return of the prodigal son who spent some time in the nick) persons cram into a three -room flat in a drab suburb .All the story is told by the youngest child of the family (who eventually finds the right way to get out of this dump).The writers wanted probably to show us that is an unfair society , you are always alone ,in spite of a large family, when you deal with your personal problemsu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA film made of sketches best describes a confusing screenplay ,in which the actors (with the exception of Girardot and Philippe Caroit as a sewing-machines rep on the dole ) try to hog the stage each one more so than the other;witty lines are few and far between (u0026quot;I like cats because there are no police catsu0026quot;)”