Qu'est-ce qu'on a tous fait au bon Dieu? (2021)

Claude regrets having managed to convince his sons-in-law to stay in Chinon. When he goes for walks around town, he tries to avoid them. They are everywhere and invite themselves over at every opportunity. Claude is annoyed to learn that André and Madeleine Koffi are coming to stay with him, without saying how long for. When they arrive, they reveal that André has rheumatism and does not want to return to Ivory Coast until the rainy season is over. Claude learns that Charles is going to play Jesus. Ségolène holds the opening of her painting exhibition. Her paintings depict bloody animal carcasses hanging from butcher’s hooks. Helmut Schäfer, a wealthy German art collector, is impressed, but cannot decide which painting to buy and says he will come back to make his choice. Meeting Helmut causes tension in Ségolène and Chao’s marriage, and Claude sees an opportunity for a divorce and a chance to bring Ségolène closer to Helmut, whom he considers the perfect son-in-law. Ever since they became neighbors, David and Rachid have been at war because an apple from David’s apple tree fell into the parsley patch in Rachid’s garden, along the fence, crushing his aromatic herbs. Ever since André misquoted a passage from Claude’s book, Claude has been setting a trap for him to make him admit that he has not read it. André loses his temper and decides to leave the house because Claude refuses to apologize for what he said, even as he walks past a beef stew. He moves in with Madeleine at Laure and Charles’s place, even though the apartment is not as big and they have taken up vegan cooking. Marie persuades Claude to apologize to André, revealing that nobody has read his books and that she knows this is why he bought all the unsold copies. The Verneuil couple are about to celebrate forty years of marriage. Claude plans a simple dinner for two for the special day. Their daughters secretly plan to renew their parents’ vows, with their husbands’ parents in attendance. The husbands are unenthusiastic, as their parents have personal problems. David’s parents argue over a bread-related matter; Chao’s father, Dong, resents the Verneuils for mistaking them for strangers during their last visit, and his mother, Xhu, has an addiction to French wine. Rachid’s father, Mohamed, is a rock ’n’ roll fan and complains that he gave up his career to work as a subway driver for 30 years so he could fulfill his role as a father. At the daughters’ insistence, the in-laws are invited and organize the reception, with a menu that is difficult to put together because of the different national cuisines. The second problem is that there is not enough room in the Verneuils’ home to accommodate all the parents. They decide to install David’s latest invention: an inflatable yurt. But no one wants their parents to stay inside it, so the priest is asked to draw lots. The lot falls to the Koffis, and Charles is not pleased about having to tell his father. The in-laws arrive in France and take advantage of the parents’ absence to prepare the surprise. Claude is particularly displeased to have to welcome under his roof again a group of strangers who are sometimes tactless and rude. The reunion gets off to a bad start. Dong shows resentment toward Claude, and David learns that his parents are arguing because his father, Isaac, accuses Sarah of making him walk miles to buy bread because she hates the nearby baker. The Lings and the Koffis argue over the bedroom. They are told that they have to stay in the yurt because of the draw, but André refuses to accept this, convinced that the priest—whom he calls a castrato—rigged it. He renews his demands for another draw, but nobody gives in to his whim. During the night, André sleeps badly and wakes everyone with a hunting horn so they can draw lots again. His name comes up once more, leaving the room assignments unchanged. Claude takes his in-laws to the Château de Chambord as their tour guide, while Marie looks after Ségolène’s art gallery, where Helmut turns up and confesses his feelings for her, despite her age. The excursion is a disaster. When Isaac and Mohamed argue about geopolitics, André falls asleep in Francis I’s bed, and Xhu sneaks off to drink wine. Tensions continue during Charles’s play, which is performed to an almost empty auditorium because a group of Jesus devotees are protesting that Jesus is being played by a Black man. Immediately after the performance, Xhu, Chao’s mother, slips away to go drinking at a bar. The women and men split up to look for her. The women find her and join her, having a good time. The two groups then separately celebrate a bachelor party and a bachelorette party at two different bars. The overly rowdy evening ends with everyone at the police station, where Claude and Marie make up. The next day, Marie goes to Helmut’s home to turn down his advances. So heartbroken is he that he tells Ségolène he is not interested in her paintings, which are horrible. After that, Ségolène and Chao reconcile. Claude and Marie take a balloon flight over the Loire Valley, a gift from their daughters, before renewing their marriage vows. During the ceremony, Helmut declares his love for Marie again in front of everyone and asks her to go with him. They have already flirted several times over the past few days. Marie declines and stays with Claude. The sons-in-law eject Helmut from the ceremony. David’s parents reconcile. That evening, there is a concert by the band led and fronted by Rachid’s father. He dedicates Johnny Hallyday’s song “Sang pour sang” to his son, acknowledging that he has not always been a good father to him. The film ends with a single continuous shot showing all the couples, reconciled and happy.