The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins

A French soufflé...a bit risqué!!!

Directed by Claude Chabrol, Édouard Molinaro, Philippe de Broca, Sylvain Dhomme, Jacques Demy, Jean-Luc Godard, Roger Vadim

Produced by Les Films Gibé, Franco London Films

1962113 min5.8 / 10

A playful, multi-director sketch comedy that uses the seven deadly sins as a framework for satirical vignettes about human folly and excess.

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Seven Deadly Sins scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Is The Seven Deadly Sins sad? Barely. Less sad than 80% of films.

  • Is The Seven Deadly Sins easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Is The Seven Deadly Sins violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Does The Seven Deadly Sins 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.

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