Social Hygiene

Antonin, a dandy and hedonist, a petty fraud, could be a good writer because of his dexterous use of words. Instead, his oratorical talent serves him more often to extricate himself from trouble and prove his innocence in clearly lost cases. Antonin has verbal skirmishes with five women: wife, sister, deceived mistress, potential mistress and a tax clerk - they make up the frame of this peculiar cinematic fruit of the pandemic. Despite the fact that the actors observantly follow the social distancing rules and during all scenes they are separated by a healthy distance of several meters, the characters who play with social hygiene have issues. Historically, social hygiene is a social movement that attempted to save society from immorality. The tension between the present day and very conventionally defined historical times is present on many levels of the film. All dialogues are spoken with an artificial, theatrical manner, but the topics of the conversation are thoroughly contemporary and densely embellished with the attributes of our times, such as Facebook, McDonald's and cars. The combination of stilted acting and brilliant dialogues filled with a sharp sense of humor results in a comically absurd effect.