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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Max is the main character. Many other characters get a characterization: Guy (the photographer), Bastien (Guy's trainee), James (the singer), Adèle (Max's assistant), Julien (the ex-professor), Samy (TheDitz), Josiane (Max's mistress), Patrice (a waiter who is a policeman by day), Henri (the older waiter who talks in the name of the others), Roshan and Kathir (two Tamil employees), Pierre (the groom), Geneviève (Pierre's mother), Héléna (the bride), Valéry (a guy who wants to buy Max's company).

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** The flutes are showed early in the film (when Samy confuses them with champagne flutes). They are used by a Tamil employee when the PA is out because of the electricity blackout.

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** The flutes are showed early in the film (when Samy confuses them with champagne flutes). They are used by a Tamil an Indian employee when the PA is out because of the electricity blackout.



** In the end, Max comes back to the château during the blackout. The background music is revealed to be played by his employees (a Tamil employee plays the flute, James plays the piano...).

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** In the end, Max comes back to the château during the blackout. The background music is revealed to be played by his employees (a Tamil (an Indian employee plays the flute, James plays the piano...).).
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Max is the main character. Many other characters get a characterization: Guy (the photographer), Bastien (Guy's trainee), James (the singer), Adèle (Max's assistant), Julien (the ex-professor), Samy (TheDitz), Josiane (Max's mistress), Patrice (a waiter who is a policeman by day), Henri (the older waiter who talks in the name of the others), Roshan and Kathir (two Tamil employees), Pierre (the groom), Geneviève (Pierre's mother), Héléna (the bride), Valéry (a guy who wants to buy Max's company).



** A Tamil employee mentions early in the film that he worked as a musician in his home country. He uses his skills in the climax to play music during the electricity blackout.

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** A Tamil An Indian employee mentions early in the film that he worked as a musician in his home country. He uses his skills in the climax to play music during the electricity blackout.
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* OnlySaneMan: Max. The groom is a self-centred jerk. The bride is a dreamer. Max's team is made up of a lazy photographer who only thinks of eating, a self-centred singer who thinks that he is a star, an agressive and rude assistant, two [[FunnyForeigner funny foreigners]], a [[TheDitz ditz]], a dreamy ex-teacher who constantly correct language mistakes...

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* OnlySaneMan: Max. The groom is a self-centred jerk. The bride is a dreamer. Max's team is made up of a lazy photographer who only thinks of eating, a self-centred singer who thinks that he is a star, an agressive and rude assistant, two [[FunnyForeigner funny foreigners]], a [[TheDitz ditz]], a dreamy ex-teacher who constantly correct corrects language mistakes...
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* GrammarNazi: Julien, an ex-literature professor, keeps on correcting people when they make language mistakes.


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* OnlySaneMan: Max. The groom is a self-centred jerk. The bride is a dreamer. Max's team is made up of a lazy photographer who only thinks of eating, a self-centred singer who thinks that he is a star, an agressive and rude assistant, two [[FunnyForeigner funny foreigners]], a [[TheDitz ditz]], a dreamy ex-teacher who constantly correct language mistakes...

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* FunnyForeigner: The two Tamil employees. For example, one of them has an OverlyLongName that the photographer cannot repeat.

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* FunnyForeigner: The two Tamil employees. For example, one of them has an OverlyLongName that the photographer cannot repeat. Max asks one of them to interrupt him on some pretext when he talks with Pierre. The Tamil employee interrupts him several times, but cannot find a pretext.


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** Following Max's instructions, a Tamil employee interrupts Max, but he never find a pretext to do it.

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''C'est la vie!'' (''Le Sens de la fête'') is a 2017 French comedy film directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, starring Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche and Jean-Paul Rouve.

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''C'est la vie!'' (''Le (in French ''[[CompletelyDifferentTitle Le Sens de la fête'') fête]]'', which means "the sense of celebration") is a 2017 French comedy film directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, starring Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche and Jean-Paul Rouve.


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* AllPartOfTheShow: When Pierre flies away with his helium balloon, the two Tamil employees do not realize that the show does not go as planned. Instead, they praise the French for their [[TitleDrop sense of celebration]].


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* TitleDrop: When Pierre flies away with his helium balloon, the two Tamil employees praise the French for their sense of celebration (in French "sens de la fête").

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* FunnyForeigner: The two Tamil employees. For example, one of them has a very long name that the photographer cannot repeat.

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* FunnyForeigner: The two Tamil employees. For example, one of them has a very long name an OverlyLongName that the photographer cannot repeat.


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* OverlyLongName: Guy advises his trainee to ask everyone's name, so that he can call everybody by his name. Guy then asks the name of one of the Tamil employees. The Tamil employee answers, but his name is very long and difficult to pronounce. Guy then tells his trainee that, in such a case, he can just say hello.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening sequence, Max meets two people who are going to get married. This establishes Max as a wedding planner and as a DeadpanSnarker with a Hair-Trigger Temper when he tells them his ideas to reduce costs.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening sequence, Max meets two people who are going to get married. This establishes Max as a wedding planner and as a DeadpanSnarker with a Hair-Trigger Temper HairTriggerTemper when he tells them his ideas to reduce costs.

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* DeadpanSnarker: Max. In his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he seriously tells two prospects that, for their wedding, they should ask their guest to bring food and drinks. For the decoration, he will ask a little girl he knows to prepare it with crepe paper.


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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the opening sequence, Max meets two people who are going to get married. This establishes Max as a wedding planner and as a DeadpanSnarker with a Hair-Trigger Temper when he tells them his ideas to reduce costs.
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** Guy is astounded to hear that dating apps with a geolocation function exist. He asks Bastien to help him to use it.

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** Guy is astounded to hear that dating apps with a geolocation function exist. He asks Bastien Bastien, his young trainee, to help him to use it.
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* TechnologicallyBlindElders:
** Max has problems with the autocorrect of his smartphone, so he often sends confusing messages.
** Guy is astounded to hear that dating apps with a geolocation function exist. He asks Bastien to help him to use it.

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* OperationJealousy: Josiane flirts with Patrice because Max cannot dump his wife to move in with her.



* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: A Tamil employee mentions early in the film that he worked as a musician in his home country. He uses his skills in the climax to play music during the electricity blackout.

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* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities:
** Patrice, a waiter, is a policeman during the daytime. When some people get food poisoning, he investigates the case.
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A Tamil employee mentions early in the film that he worked as a musician in his home country. He uses his skills in the climax to play music during the electricity blackout.
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** When the party begins, Max checks that everything is OK. The background music is revealed to be a song that James sing on the château's stairs.

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** When the party begins, Max checks that everything is OK. The background music is revealed to be a song that James sing sings on the château's stairs.
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* ShoutOut: The tables are named after novels by Romain Gary/Émile Ajar, except one named ''La Nuit des temps'', after a novel by Creator/ReneBarjavel (translated as ''The Ice People'' in English).

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* ShoutOut: The tables are named after novels by Romain Gary/Émile Ajar, except one named ''La Nuit des temps'', after a novel by Creator/ReneBarjavel (translated as ''The Ice People'' ''Literature/TheIcePeople'' in English).

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pierre, the groom, is very self-centered. He asks James to introduce him as someone before his speech.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pierre, the groom, is very self-centered. He asks James to introduce him as someone exceptional before his speech.


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* ShoutOut: The tables are named after novels by Romain Gary/Émile Ajar, except one named ''La Nuit des temps'', after a novel by Creator/ReneBarjavel (translated as ''The Ice People'' in English).
* WeddingSmashers: The wedding party has several important problems. The most critical one is when the groom is taken away in the air by a helium balloon. The wedding has a happy ending anyway.
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* FunnyForeigner: The two Tamil employees. For example, one of them has a very long name that the photographer cannot repeat.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pierre, the groom, is very self-centered. He asks James to say that he is someone exceptional to introduce his speech.

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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pierre, the groom, is very self-centered. He asks James to say that he is someone exceptional to introduce him as someone before his speech.


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Max gives one to his employees after the groom has flied away, the fireworks have exploded and the fuses have blown.

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* Balloonacy: Happens to Pierre when James and Adèle let go of the ropes of his helium balloon.

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* Balloonacy: {{Balloonacy}}: Happens to Pierre when James and Adèle let go of the ropes of his helium balloon.


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* BrickJoke: Early in the film, Samy is told to shave. Much later, Patrice says that the fridges were unplugged and he found an electric shaver on the socket.
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* Balloonacy: Happens to Pierre when James and Adèle let go of the ropes of his helium balloon.


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* FinaglesLaw: Someone unplugs the friges, so the food is spoiled. James and Adèle let go of the ropes of the groom's helium balloon, so Pierre flies away. The fireworks explodes and there is an electricity blackout. These are just the main problems that Max has to deal with.


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* ItsAllAboutMe: Pierre, the groom, is very self-centered. He asks James to say that he is someone exceptional to introduce his speech.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn:
** When the party begins, Max checks that everything is OK. The background music is revealed to be a song that James sing on the château's stairs.
** In the end, Max comes back to the château during the blackout. The background music is revealed to be played by his employees (a Tamil employee plays the flute, James plays the piano...).
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** The flutes are showed early in the film (when Samy confuses them with champagne flutes). They are used in the climax by a Tamil employee when the PA is out during the electricity blackout.

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** The flutes are showed early in the film (when Samy confuses them with champagne flutes). They are used in the climax by a Tamil employee when the PA is out during because of the electricity blackout.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** The fact that the electrical system of the château is unreliable is showed during the preparation of the party (the fuses blow when the PA is used at the same time as the ovens). In the climax, there is an electricity blackout.
** The flutes are showed early in the film (when Samy confuses them with champagne flutes). They are used in the climax by a Tamil employee when the PA is out during the electricity blackout.
* TheDitz: Samy. He confuses ''turbot'' with ''turbo'' (which have the same pronounciation in French). He is surprised to hear that the ''loup'' is a fish (''loup'' means both "wolf" and "bass"). When he is asked to fetch ''flutes'', he thinks of musical instruments, not champagne flutes.


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* IntimidatingRevenueService: Max is scared to death when he thinks that a tax inspector has infiltrated the party. This guy turns out to be someone interested in buying up his company.
* LongSpeechTeaTime: Pierre's speech is very long. A guest is falling asleep and his wife has to nudge him.
* TheMistress: Josiane is Max's mistress.


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* WorkplaceAcquiredAbilities: A Tamil employee mentions early in the film that he worked as a musician in his home country. He uses his skills in the climax to play music during the electricity blackout.
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''C'est la vie!'' (''Le Sens de la fête'') is a 2017 French comedy film directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, starring Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche and Jean-Paul Rouve.

Max (Bacri) is a wedding planner. He is in charge of organizing Pierre's wedding. He will have a lot of problems with his team, which includes a lazy photographer (Rouve) and a self-centered singer (Lellouche).

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!!''C'est la vie!'' provides examples of:
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between James and Adèle. They quarrel constantly until Max tells them to hug each other to improve their team spirit. The hug becomes a very sensual embrace.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The story takes place during a wedding party, from the afternoon to the next morning.
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: The two Tamil employees make derogatory comments about the other characters in Tamil. For example, they say that Julien is depressive and that his trousers look like pyjamas.
* RunningGag:
** Someone says that Julien's trousers look like pyjamas.
** Adèle tells Max that something terrible happened. After a beat, Adèle tells him that she was joking.
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