La Classe américaine

La Classe américaine

Warning! This film is not a film about cycling.

Directed by Dominique Mézerette, Michel Hazanavicius

Produced by Dune

199372 min7.6 / 10

A wildly inventive collage-parody that remixes Hollywood footage with French dubbing to create absurdist comedy out of cinematic fragments.

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)

Questions people ask

  • Is La Classe américaine sad? Barely. Less sad than 80% of films.

  • Is La Classe américaine scary? Barely. Less frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is La Classe américaine violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is La Classe américaine easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Does La Classe américaine end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

94/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

There is almost nothing else like this.

Rarity96

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise97

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love90

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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