A French Movie With a Woman Pretending to Be Married to Her Son Hit Netflix's Top 10

Every week, Netflix reveals its Top 10 lists, ranking its most-viewed movies and TV shows. Though some of these top titles are expected, others can surprise. Here's where we try to make sense of those seemingly random hits. France has a reputation for being sexually liberal, and a recent French film that dropped on the streamer, Honeymoon Crasher, is mining that reputation for laughs in a way that is wildly entertaining. It made me concerned that I shouldn't be laughing as much as I did on a couple of occasions during my viewing. (I should note that I watched the film in French with subtitles, which is a better experience than watching the dubbed version.) Honeymoon Crasher, which has been at No. 1 on Netflix's non-English movies Top 10 list for weeks, stars Michèle Laroque as Lily, a middle-aged woman whose son Lucas (Julien Frison) was left at the altar by his fiancée, Elodie. In the aftermath, Lucas is not just depressed that he was abandoned by the woman that he loves, but he als ... Read full article.