Enormous
Énorme
Director: Sophie Letourneur
Country: France
Regional Premiere
2020 | 98 min. | French
Subtitles: German, English
FSK 18
Cast_ Marina Foïs, Jonathan Cohen Screenplay_ Sophie Letourneur Camera_ Laurent Brunet Producer_ Caroline Bonmarchand, Isaac Sharry Rights_ Indie Sales
She is pregnant and he feels the contractions. What begins as a farce develops into one of the most extraordinary and feminist French comedies in recent memory.
For Claire, a pianist of international renown, her career is clearly a priority. When her child-loving husband Frédéric nevertheless succeeds in "secretly impregnating" her through underhanded means, it kicks off an unparallaled tour de force.
Writer-director Sophie Letourneur has developed a story that is meticulously designed around the two stars Marina Fois and Jonathan Cohen, starting off hilariously funny before going into completely unexpected territory. When surrealism suddenly becomes hyper-reality, the director has us right where she wants us. Namely, where everything we have thought we believed until now is put into question, if not jettisoned altogether.