Or as Mel Brooks writes in the musical The Producers, "its all show business."
I saw the French comedy The Closet last night. It had gotten a good review in the NY Times and I was looking forward to seeing it.
Very glib and silly. Directed by Veber, the guy who directed "La Cage aux Folles" in the 70s. This movie wastes several talented actors: Daniel Auteil, Gerard Depardieu, and a couple I recognized but don't know their names.
About an accountant at a condom factory that is so pale he is expendable. A new neigbhor, an older gay man who had lost his job many years before for being gay, convinces him of a plot to send anonymous photos of him in a gay bar. Suddenly, everybody thinks he is coming out of the closet and re-interprets him and his behaviors. The wallflower is a flamer. Autiel plays the accountant. His character never changes, but his co-workers sees him differently. Depardieu plays a homophobe who is encouraged to be nice to the accountant to show he is not a gay basher. This suddenly becomes his quest and he finds himself transformed.
Unfortunately, not very funny.
