• Director(s):

    KLEIN (WILLIAM)

  • Producer(s):

    FILMS PARIS NEW YORK

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    1976

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    CINEMA, NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD, INTERNET

The Minister of the Future selects a model couple and sets them up in an experimental apartment in the heart of New City, which is still under construction.

Electronic happiness, a massive hoax. What will life be like in France in the year 2000? How easy will it be to manipulate and program people? To find out, the Minister of the Future selects a model couple, Jean-Michel and Claudine (André Dussollier and Anémone) and sets them up in an experimental apartment in the heart of New City, which is still under construction. Taken in hand on arrival by two psycho-sociologists (Zouc and Jacques Boudet), the two guinea pigs' lives are dictated by a demented program. Every moment of their existence is dissected, their words, dreams, way of eating, being bored and making love. At the beginning, the experiment is a game. The couple's adventures are shown on TV with the whole country watching live. But gradually, in their closed world, things begin to go sour. What are all these tests for? What exactly are all these technicians after? The plot twists and turns down to the final send-up, a joyous explosion of slapstick. The experiment is a horrible flop like so many glorious initiatives of our schizo society.

"It is incisive, never cursory, always subtle. The film makes you laugh from beginning to end, sometimes so hard you cry." (Alain Rémond - Télérama)