Best movie of this year hands down!

Excellent but underrated film

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

At last, this little gem of a film is available on DVD (only in French, no subtitles, but it is, in any case, a difficult film to enjoy other than in French), together with 2 hours of additional interviews.This film is a wicked little satire on the differences (and, below the surface, the similarities) between the bourgeois LeQuesnoy family and the wastrel Groseille family. The artifice used is the switching of two children at birth by the unhappy mistress of the gynaecologist.For many of the actors and the director, this was their first film, providing a stepping stone for greater things. But "La Vie est un Long Fleuve Tranquille" should not be missed. Many of its little jokes became catchphrases in the France of the eighties and early nineties, so cruelly apt were they.And do not miss Etienne Chatiliez's later films, particularly "Tatie Danielle" et "Le Bonheur est dans le Pre". You might not enjoy this film - some people clearly haven't. But I recommend you make the effort to decide for yourself. It will be worth it.

The subject of two children being switched at birth could have easily been the canvas for a melodramatic movie. Instead of that, this work presents a playfull comedy where the clichés of society classes are scrutinized. The laughs are in the details, some dialogs are just memorable. And if the ending might seem a little unsettled, it has the intelligence of leaving questions and conclusions to the spectator about wealth and happiness.

I'm french and I really enjoyed this movie.It shows how the upper class lives in a world of lies, how everything is based on appearance, on what you look like and not on who you really are. This movie is really one of the most funny french movies done in the last decades. You can't watch how the "Groseilles" live without laugh.I watch it when I was 10 years old and since then I like it.

This movie lacks plot and quality. Maybe I lost something my seeing it in English subtitles. The sex scene was disgusting. It made little sense to me. Sure the movie was about the class differences in France between the upper middle class and the lower class, but it was presented so poorly. I have seen good French films, and this is not one of them. The main thing this movie lacks above all else is entertainment value. It's just not there. The music at the opening is stupid. The part about the doctor and the nurse it totally dropped after a point, and then it just shifts gears and leaves you hanging. You wonder what happens. This a bad movie, don't see it.