: A working-class, disreputable, and somewhat criminal family living in a cramped HLM (public housing).
La Vie Est un Long Fleuve Tranquille (1988): A Masterpiece of Social Satire la vie est un long fleuve tranquille 1988 okru upd
The title ironically translates to Life is a Long Quiet River , and the film immediately sets about proving just how turbulent that river really is. The plot is a classic French farce: two families, the wealthy, bourgeois Le Quesnoy family and the poor, crude Groseille family, discover that their 12-year-old sons were switched at birth a decade earlier. Rather than correct the mistake, the two families decide to keep things as they are, but the secret inevitably leaks, leading to a comedic and poignant clash of classes. : A working-class