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In this 1978 French comedy, a group of stage actors from Paris’s renowned Le Café de la Gare and Le Splendid assemble in a cinema to watch an anonymous adult film. The premise isn’t about the porn itself but about how these performers react to what they see on screen. Rather than following a scripted dialogue, everything is improvised, turning the audience of a theater into a lab where humor, discomfort, and curiosity collide. The result feels like a live experiment in performance, where personalities clash and align as each spectator riffs, hesitates, and recovers, revealing attitudes toward sexuality, fame, and the line between cinema and stage. Inside the frame the room becomes a playground for riffs.

Directed by Raymond Lewin, the 1978 film is built around an original concept rather than a direct adaptation, drawing a core ensemble of Parisian theatre stalwarts from Le Café de la Gare and Le Splendid into a single screening room.

The movie stands out for its improvised dialogue from a celebrated theatre troupe, blending stage energy with cinema. It captures a moment when French comedy met collective creativity, contributing to improvisational approaches in ensemble pieces and film discussions among fans of 1970s Paris theatre and film, and influenced ensembles.

Critically the film is seen as a witty meditation on spectatorship, performance and consent with humor that pokes at artifice while letting personalities drive the laughs. Its themes include the porous boundary between theatre and film and how improvised art confronts taboo subjects, inviting viewers to reflect on performance.