Boudu

Boudu (2005) is a French comedy you can watch online on iFILM, with Gérard Depardieu in roaring form. One spring night in Aix-en-Provence, a heavily indebted gallery owner fishes a tramp out of a canal just as the man tries to drown himself. The rescue backfires fast: grateful Boudu invites himself in — and refuses to leave.

Depardieu plays Boudu as a force of nature, crude and shameless, trampling every rule of his host's polite household. Director Gérard Jugnot, who also stars as the flustered Christian, watches his hero's life come apart room by room — the marriage frays, the business wobbles, and the guest just settles deeper into the sofa. It's a loose update of Jean Renoir's classic, moved to modern-day Provence. If you enjoy sharp French farce about the bourgeoisie meeting pure chaos, this one lands. Stream Boudu (2005) online on iFILM.