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Family Swap

Family Swap

Comedy · Fantasy · 2021

Husband does not understand his wife? Conflict with children? Do you want to be heard and stood in your place? Be afraid of your desires. In this family, everything changed places, including grandmother.

Movie details

Family Swap

2021 Comedy · Fantasy 1h 32m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.0 / 10

1.2K votes

TMDB

5.9 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Husband does not understand his wife? Conflict with children? Do you want to be heard and stood in your place? Be afraid of your desires. In this family, everything changed places, including grandmother.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Family Swap?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Jean-Patrick Benes

Written by

Jean-Patrick Benes · Martin Douaire · Allan Mauduit

Franck Dubosc

Franck Dubosc

Alain

Alexandra Lamy

Alexandra Lamy

Sophie

Christiane Millet

Christiane Millet

Mamie Thérèse

Rose de Kervenoaël

Rose de Kervenoaël

Chacha

Mathilde Roehrich

Mathilde Roehrich

Valentine

Anaëlle Othenin-Girard

Anaëlle Othenin-Girard

Léo

Artus

Artus

Christophe

Court is in session

Put Family Swap on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Prestige Tourist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.