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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside

1976 · 74 min

A scruffy, joke-dense French farce that treats a bombing like a lark, bouncing between silly cops and oddball suspects with cheerful disrespect.

Overview: A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
How it feels: Absurd, satirical, dark and campy. Brisk and easy to follow.
About: Mystery, madness, deception, crime
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
madness
deception
crime
identity
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild