Director: Alain Jessua
Studio: A.J. Films, Films A2
Starring: Patrick Dewaere, Jacques Dutronc, Fanny Cottencon, Stephane Audran, Patrice Kerbrat, Jeanne Goupil, Caroline Berg, Pierre Hatet, Stephane Bouy, Francis Lemaire, Thalie Fruges, Anna Gaylor, Nicole Gueden, Elisabeth Mortensen, Philippe Brigaud, Andre Thorent, Francois Dyrek, Jean-Paul Muel
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Description:
—Doctor Valois has invented the “flashage”, a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody’s happy except may be Alain’s wife, Jeanne, who’s worrying about the changes in Alain’s personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois’s happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the overstability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realizes he can’t stop the process, he decides to “flash” himself.
—An insurance salesman is the subject for a revolutionary treatment for depressed people. The experiment is a big success, but it causes a lot of problems with the people surround him. Alain Jessua is largely ignored by critics and genre-buffs, but his films always manage to convey original ideas in the frame of the cinema genres (Crime, S.F., Horror) with a satirical view of the French society. Paradis pour tous functions in many levels: as a political farce over the turn to right of the 1980, but also as a variation of the Body Snatcher theme.
