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Étienne Chatiliez has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
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Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" shows a woman from Gers who is searching for her husband who disappeared 28 years ago. The lost husband looks like an identical twin of Francis...
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Michel Serrault, Eddy Mitchell, Sabine Azéma

Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Benoît Magimel, Valérie Lalande, Catherine Hiegel

A black comedy about a widow who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Tsilla Chelton, Isabelle Nanty, Catherine Jacob

Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Éric Berger, Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier
Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Valérie Lemercier, Anthony Kavanagh, Dominique Lavanant
16 years later, Tanguy, now 44, returns to his parents' house with his daughter Zhu under his arm because Meï Lin left him. Disappointed to see their "little one" in this state, Paul and Edith do everything to give him a taste for life, without realizing that by doing so, they braid the rope to hang themselves. Because Tanguy is starting to feel good with his parents.
Dir. Étienne Chatiliez · With Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Éric Berger