Cyprien

"Cyprien" (2009) — watch online on iFILM — is a French comedy directed by David Charhon, starring Élie Semoun, Léa Drucker, and Catherine Deneuve.

Cyprien is thirty-five and has never been with a woman — not by conviction, just by a thorough inability to talk to anyone without making it strange. He comes across a magic deodorant that flips a switch: overnight he becomes someone people actually look at. Getting what you always thought you wanted turns out to require its own set of skills he doesn't have either.

Quiet, unpretentious, and built around Semoun's understated comedy — the awkwardness reads as funny because it reads as real. Deneuve appearing in a film like this is the kind of casting choice that shouldn't work and entirely does. Stream "Cyprien" online on iFILM.