I don’t believe it!

Vaugarni

With irony, and even malice, he paints the vitriolic portrait of a France huddled and ‘tele-fed’. In this tragicomic farce, Mrs. and Mr. conjure their familiar boredom through quarrel. One believes, the other does not, a proper fight that keeps them alive. Beyond the ravages of time and routine of married life, Grumberg savors the societal signs of leveling down, intellectual impoverishment, fear of the other, and stupefaction. In the background, the constant flow of television programs figures their relation to the outside world…