I'm Losing My Temper

I'm Losing My Temper (La moutarde me monte au nez, 1974) is a French comedy from Claude Zidi that you can watch online on iFILM. Pierre Durois teaches mathematics at an all-girls boarding school, carries himself with painful seriousness, and trails small disasters wherever he steps.

In his off-hours he dabbles in journalism. When a film crew rolls into town, he gleefully bangs out a poison-pen piece about a temperamental star — the British actress Jacky Logan. Then he runs into her in the flesh, falls head over heels, and spends the rest of the picture in a sweat trying to kill both his own article and a stack of indiscreet photos already heading for the presses.

Pierre Richard and Jane Birkin make the central pair, and the whole thing rides on their contrast: his flustered restraint against her careless charm. Zidi stages pure vaudeville — mix-ups, chases, ridiculous coincidences, all at a brisk clip. Light vintage fun for an evening when you just want to laugh at someone else's bad luck. Stream I'm Losing My Temper (1974) online on iFILM.