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* BreakUpToMakeUp: Pignon is still in love with his ex-wife. He constantly tries to see her again. When she finally accepts, he tells her that she is a bad person and that she does not deserve him.
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''The Closet'' (French: ''Le Placard'') is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Creator/FrancisVeber, starring Creator/DanielAuteuil, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Michel Aumont, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte and Creator/JeanRochefort.

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''The Closet'' (French: ''Le Placard'') is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Creator/FrancisVeber, starring Creator/DanielAuteuil, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Michel Aumont, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte Creator/ThierryLhermitte and Creator/JeanRochefort.
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''The Closet'' (French: ''Le Placard'') is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Creator/FrancisVeber, [[AllStarCast starring]] Creator/DanielAuteuil, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Michel Aumont, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte and Creator/JeanRochefort.

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''The Closet'' (French: ''Le Placard'') is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Creator/FrancisVeber, [[AllStarCast starring]] starring Creator/DanielAuteuil, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Michel Aumont, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte and Creator/JeanRochefort.
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''The Closet'' (French: ''Le Placard'') is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Creator/FrancisVeber, [[AllStarCast starring]] Daniel Auteuil, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Michel Aumont, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte and Creator/JeanRochefort.

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''The Closet'' (French: ''Le Placard'') is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Creator/FrancisVeber, [[AllStarCast starring]] Daniel Auteuil, Creator/DanielAuteuil, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Michel Aumont, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte and Creator/JeanRochefort.
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* ShoutOut: Belone parodies the famous lines of ''Film/TheBakersWife'' by Marcel Pagnol about the cat who comes back home.

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* ShoutOut: Belone parodies the famous lines of ''Film/TheBakersWife'' by Marcel Pagnol Creator/MarcelPagnol about the cat who comes back home.
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* SuddenlySexuality: Santini is an outspoken straight man. Then Guillaume suggests him to be nice with Pignon. Somehow, this makes him fall in love with Pignon.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Alba and Ponce, two similar-looking employees, who makes comments about the plot, but have little impact on it.

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* ThoseTwoGuys: Alba and Ponce, two similar-looking employees, who makes make comments about the plot, but have little impact on it.
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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: When he is in the bathroom, Pignon overhears Santini, who tells the photographers that Pignong is an idiot who will be fired.

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* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: When he is in the bathroom, Pignon overhears Santini, who tells the photographers that Pignong Pignon is an idiot who will be fired.
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* CampGay: {{Conversed|Trope}}. Belone tells Pignon that he should not to adopt an effeminate behaviour to pose as a gay man. He even says that the actors who do it [[TakeThat discredit themselves]].

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* CampGay: {{Conversed|Trope}}. [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]]. Belone tells Pignon that he should not to adopt an effeminate behaviour to pose as a gay man. He even says that the actors who do it [[TakeThat discredit themselves]].
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* {{Troll}}: Guillaume, who tells Santini that he will be fired unless he is nice with Pignon.

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* {{Troll}}: Guillaume, who tells Santini that he will be fired unless he is nice with Pignon.Pignon, only because it amuses him to torment his colleague.

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* InterruptedIntimacy: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. A watchman walks in when Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing Pignon's shirt, but they [[NotWhatItLooksLike were not going to have sex]]. Pignon was asleep (he wakes up when the watchman walks in) and Mademoiselle Bertrand was removing his shirt because she wanted to check if he had the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph.


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* SorryToInterrupt: A watchman walks in when Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing Pignon's shirt, but they [[NotWhatItLooksLike were not going to have sex]]. Pignon was asleep (he wakes up when the watchman walks in) and Mademoiselle Bertrand was removing his shirt because she wanted to check if he had the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph.
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* BreakUpToMakeUp: Pignon is still in love with his ex-wife. He constantly tries to see her again. When she finally accepts, he tells her that she is a bad person and that she does not deserve him.
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* FiringDay: François Pignon hears that he will be fired. His neighbour encourages him to try to save his job.
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* CampGay: {{Conversed|Trope}}. Belone tells Pignon that he should not to adopt an effeminate behaviour to pose as a gay man. He event says that the actors who do it [[TakeThat discredit themselves]].

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* CampGay: {{Conversed|Trope}}. Belone tells Pignon that he should not to adopt an effeminate behaviour to pose as a gay man. He event even says that the actors who do it [[TakeThat discredit themselves]].

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* CampGay: {{Conversed|Trope}}. Belone tells Pignon that he should not to adopt an effeminate behaviour to pose as a gay man. He event says that the actors who do it [[TakeThat discredit themselves]].



* NoBisexuals: Even if Pignon had a wife in the past, everybody considers him as a gay man once they have seen the doctored photographs. Kopel even guesses that the pictures are fake because he catches Pignon having sex with Mademoiselle Bertrand. The possibility that he is bisexual is implicitly rules out.

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* NoBisexuals: Even if Pignon had a wife in the past, everybody considers him as a gay man once they have seen the doctored photographs. Kopel even guesses that the pictures are fake because he catches Pignon having sex with Mademoiselle Bertrand. The possibility that he is bisexual is implicitly rules ruled out.


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* TakeThat: Belone tells Pignon that the actors who adopt CampGay mannerism to impersonate gay men discredit themselves.
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* DivorceIsTemporary: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Pignon is divorced, but he is still in love with his ex-wife. He often tries to see her again. When she finally accepts, he tells her that she is a bad person and that she does not deserve him.

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* DivorceIsTemporary: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Pignon is divorced, but he is still in love with his ex-wife. He often constantly tries to see her again. When she finally accepts, he tells her that she is a bad person and that she does not deserve him.



* NoBisexuals: Even if Pignon had a wife in the past, everybody considers him as a gay man once they have seen the doctored photographs. Kopel even guesses that the pictures are fake because he catches Pignon having sex with Mademoiselle Bertrand.

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* NoBisexuals: Even if Pignon had a wife in the past, everybody considers him as a gay man once they have seen the doctored photographs. Kopel even guesses that the pictures are fake because he catches Pignon having sex with Mademoiselle Bertrand. The possibility that he is bisexual is implicitly rules out.

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François Pignon (Auteuil), a divorced father, hears that he will be fired from his job in a rubber factory. His neighbour, an retired psychologist, suggests him to prentend to be gay. He thinks that his bosses would not dare to fire an homosexual because of political correctness.

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François Pignon (Auteuil), a divorced father, hears that he will be fired from his job in a rubber factory. His neighbour, an retired psychologist, psychologist (Aumont), suggests him to prentend to be gay. He thinks that his bosses would not dare to fire an homosexual because of political correctness.



* AccidentalPervert: Pignon falls asleep in the office. Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing his shirt because she would like to check if he has the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph. Pignon wakes up when a watchman walk in, and he thinks that she was going to rape him.

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* AccidentalPervert: AccidentalPervert:
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Pignon falls asleep in the office. Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing his shirt because she would like to check if he has the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph. Pignon wakes up when a watchman walk in, and he thinks that she was going to rape him.him.
** Pignon is waiting for his son outside of the high school. Alba and Ponce pass by and, because they think that he is gay, they assume that he is ogling male teenagers.


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* MentorArchetype: Belone is a retired company psychologist. In the past, he was fired because he was gay. When he sees that Pignon is going to commit suicide, he decides to help him and he devises a plan to prevent him from being fired. Pignon constantly asks him for advice.

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* AccidentalPervert: Pignon falls asleep in the office. Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing his shirt because she would like to check if he has the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph. Pignon wakes up and he thinks that she was going to rape him.

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* AccidentalPervert: Pignon falls asleep in the office. Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing his shirt because she would like to check if he has the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph. Pignon wakes up when a watchman walk in, and he thinks that she was going to rape him.


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* InterruptedIntimacy: {{Zigzagged|Trope}}. A watchman walks in when Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing Pignon's shirt, but they [[NotWhatItLooksLike were not going to have sex]]. Pignon was asleep (he wakes up when the watchman walks in) and Mademoiselle Bertrand was removing his shirt because she wanted to check if he had the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph.
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* ArmouredClosetGay: Santini is vocally opposed to homosexuality. He is a manly man who plays rugby. He develops romantic feeling for his male colleague, Pignon.
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* NotWhatItLooksLike: Pignon falls asleep in the office. Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing his shirt because she would like to check if he has the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph. Pignon wakes up and he thinks that she was going to rape him.
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* AccidentalPervert: Pignon falls asleep in the office. Mademoiselle Bertrand starts removing his shirt because she would like to check if he has the same tattoo as on the doctored photograph. Pignon wakes up and he thinks that she was going to rape him.
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* AnimalMotifs: The abandoned kitten is an image of Pignon, who is abandoned by his ex-wife, his son and his employer. Belone helps both the kitten and Pignon.


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* DeadPetSketch: The kitten disappears from Belone's flat. Pignon brings him an identical kitten and pretends that it is the same one. Then the initial kitten shows up on Belone's balcony.


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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Pignon is going to jump from his balcony. Belone, his neighbour, shows up and tells him not to do it because he would damage his car that is parked below. Later, he reveals that he lied: he had no car parked below.
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* NobiSexuals: Even if Pignon had a wife in the past, everybody considers him as a gay man once they have seen the doctored photographs. Kopel even guesses that the pictures are fake because he catches Pignon having sex with Mademoiselle Bertrand.

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* NobiSexuals: NoBisexuals: Even if Pignon had a wife in the past, everybody considers him as a gay man once they have seen the doctored photographs. Kopel even guesses that the pictures are fake because he catches Pignon having sex with Mademoiselle Bertrand.
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* RedAndWhiteComedyPoster: See the poster above.
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* BecomingTheMask: {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. Santini pretends to be nice with Pignon and this makes him fall in love with his colleague.
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* NobiSexuals: Even if Pignon had a wife in the past, everybody considers him as a gay man once they have seen the doctored photographs. Kopel even guesses that the pictures are fake because he catches Pignon having sex with Mademoiselle Bertrand.


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* SuddenlySexuality: Santini is an outspoken straight man. Then Guillaume suggests him to be nice with Pignon. Somehow, this makes him fall in love with Pignon.


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* {{Troll}}: Guillaume, who tells Santini that he will be fired unless he is nice with Pignon.
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* FauxYay: Pignon prentends to be gay. He thinks that his bosses would not dare to fire an homosexual because of political correctness.


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* MistakenForGay: {{Invoked|Trope}} by François Pignon and Jean-Pierre Belone. Belone tells Pignon that everybody will think he is gay, even if he does not change his introvert behaviour.
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''The Closet'' (French: ''Le Placard'') is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Creator/FrancisVeber, [[AllStarCast starring]] Daniel Auteuil, Creator/GerardDepardieu, Michel Aumont, Michèle Laroque, Thierry Lhermitte and Creator/JeanRochefort.

François Pignon (Auteuil), a divorced father, hears that he will be fired from his job in a rubber factory. His neighbour, an retired psychologist, suggests him to prentend to be gay. He thinks that his bosses would not dare to fire an homosexual because of political correctness.

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!!''The Closet'' provides examples of:
* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults: When he is in the bathroom, Pignon overhears Santini, who tells the photographers that Pignong is an idiot who will be fired.
* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with a company photography session. In the first one, Pignon ends up out of the frame. In the final one, he dares to push the other employees to be in the frame.
* DivorceIsTemporary: {{Subverted|Trope}}. Pignon is divorced, but he is still in love with his ex-wife. He often tries to see her again. When she finally accepts, he tells her that she is a bad person and that she does not deserve him.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: {{Invoked|Trope}} by François Pignon and Jean-Pierre Belone. Belone doctors photographs to create images of Pignon with other men in a gay bar. He send them to his company to make the bosses think that he is gay.
* ShoutOut: Belone parodies the famous lines of ''Film/TheBakersWife'' by Marcel Pagnol about the cat who comes back home.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Alba and Ponce, two similar-looking employees, who makes comments about the plot, but have little impact on it.
* VisitByDivorcedDad: Pignon is divorced and he is sad because his son rarely pays a visit to him.
* WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture: Everybody is fooled by the photographs doctored by Belone. Only Mademoiselle Bertrand questions their authenticity.
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