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L'Invitation

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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })L'Invitation (The Invitation) is a 1973 film from Switzerland directed by Claude Goretta.The film starts out at an anonymous office...somewhere. Remy, one of the office drones, is a meek bachelor who looks to be on the wrong side of 50 but still lives with his mom at home. One day, Remy's boss Pierre Collard, gets a call: Remy's mom has died. Remy faints dead away when he is told, and Mr. Collard grants him two months bereavement leave.The rest of the office is surprised some time later to get invitations from Remy inviting them all to his new home. They are even more surprised when they arrive at Remy's house and find it to be a lavish mansion in the country with spacious grounds—apparently that house in the city that Remy inherited from his mother was quite valuable.Everybody from the office shows up: Mr. Collard, Mr. Lamel the Jerkass junior manager, "Miss Emma" the oldest person in the office, Maurice the too-boisterous younger man, Aline the hot secretary, and others. Drinks are served, more drinks are served, almost everybody (except for Lamel the jerk) loosens up, and eventually things get out of hand.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Book Ends: The film begins and ends with scenes of everyone in their exceedingly dull office, banging away at typewriters. The ending is ironic, seeing as how Aline has disappeared after making a spectacle of herself at the party, and everyone else seems to be pretending that nothing happened.
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 Establishing Character Moment: When everyone else hustles out of the office at lunch, Remy sits at his desk eating from a lunch box and leafing through a book of botany. Then he walks home and has dinner with his elderly mom. He's revealed to be a shy and quiet bachelor in late middle age.
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 Commitment Issues: Maurice brings his attractive girlfriend Helene to the party, but as he tells a coworker, he doesn't want to get tied down to a relationship with her. (He's also clearly trying to make a threesome with Aline happen, but he can't pull it off.)
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