Tanguy (film)

Tanguy
Tanguy
	Film poster
Directed by	Étienne Chatiliez
Written by	Yolande Zauberman; Étienne Chatiliez; Laurent Chouchan
Produced by	Charles Gassot
Starring	Sabine Azéma; André Dussollier; Éric Berger
Cinematography	Philippe Welt
Edited by	Catherine Renault
Music by	Pascal Andreacchio
Production; company	TF1 Films Production
Distributed by	TF1 International
Release date	21 November 2001;
Running time	108 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	$19.8 million
Box office	$24.3 million

Tanguy is a 2001 French black comedy by Étienne Chatiliez.

Plot[]

When he was a newborn baby, Edith Guetz thoughtlessly told her son Tanguy : "If you want to, you can stay at home forever". 28 years later, the over-educated university teacher of Asian languages and womanizer leads a successful and wealthy life... while still living in his parents' home. Father Paul Guetz longs to see his son finally leave the nest, a desire that his wife does not share. Edith finally agrees and the pair unite to make Tanguy's life at home miserable. However, they don't know that Tanguy isn't the type of guy who easily gives up.

Cast[]

Sabine Azéma as Edith Guetz
- [fr; pt] as young Edith
André Dussollier as Paul Guetz
- Niels Dubost as young Paul
Éric Berger as Tanguy Guetz
Hélène Duc as Grandmother Odile
Aurore Clément as Carole
Jean-Paul Rouve as Bruno Lemoine
André Wilms as the psychiatrist
[fr] as Patrick
Roger van Hool as Philippe
Nathalie Krebs as Noëlle
Delphine Serina as Sophie
Sachi Kawamata as Kimiko
Annelise Hesme as Marguerite
Philippe Laudenbach as lawyer Badinier
Jacques Boudet as the judge
Tony D'Amario
Tony Gaultier
Pomme Bourcart as the young Chinese
[fr] as the Air France hostess
Didier Caron as doctor Paul
Julie Fournier as Nathalie
Philippe Gildas as himself
Jean-Pierre Jorris
Patrick Bouchitey as person at the internal emergency department
[de; fr] as Cyril
[fr; it] as Nora
Valérie Druguet as the midwife
Arthur Gigan as first twin
Victor Gigan as second twin
[fr] as shrink's daughter
[fr] as Ingrid
[fr] as poisoner
Jean-Louis Annaloro as delivery man
Li Fang asd Chinese woman
Matthew McChesney as Benjamin
[fr] as lifeguard
Elvire Melliere as student
[fr] as the midwife
John Paval as Larry Frock
[fr] as the giant
[fr] as lady from Luxembourg
Marielle Saintignon as the nurse
Airy Routier as Stéphane
Christophe Ratandra as Pakistani student
Arnaud Riou as anesthesiologist
Zhenhuan Xiao as Mei Li's mother
Hongwu Wang as Mei Li's father
Shuxian Li as Mei Li's grandmother
Tian Fenglai as Mei Li's grandfather

Reception[]

The film opened at number one in France with a gross of 29 million Francs ($4.2 million).^[3] It went on to gross $21.4 million in France and $24.3 million worldwide.^[2]

Lisa Nesselson of Variety wrote "The calculated, hypocritical closeness of French families gets a satirical working over in "Tanguy," the story of a well-off Parisian couple whose only son is still living at home at age 28 -- to their increasingly ill-concealed dismay. Thesps are terrific but script is less so in this moderately amusing rather than uproarious venture from Etienne Chatiliez".^[4]