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3	''My Father's Guests'' (''Les Invités de mon père'') is a 2010 French comedy film directed by Anne Le Ny.
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5	Lucien Paumelle (Michel Aumont), a retired physician who has always been involved in humanitarian causes, informs his children Arnaud (Creator/FabriceLuchini) and Babette (Karin Viard) that he will host a clandestine family in his flat. It turns out the said family is Tatiana (Veronica Novak), a young Moldovian, and her daughter Sorina (Emma Siniavski). Lucien is actually in love with Tatiana.
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8	!!''My Father's Guests'' provides examples of:
9	* AmbiguousSituation: Is Tatiana forced into a relationship by DirtyOldMan Lucien? Or is Lucien manipulated by GoldDigger Tatiana?
10	* BlackSheep: Arnaud was this. He left his family because he did not fit. His father stopped supporting him.
11	* BlackWidow: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Arnaud suspects Tatiana to have knowingly given his father too much medicine to poison him. [[spoiler:In the end, she tells him that she would not have done it, because she needed him to live longer to get the French nationality.]]
12	* BourgeoisBohemian: Lucien Paumelle and her daughter Babette. They are wealthy and support liberal political causes, like the sorting out of illegal immigrants. The vegetarian aunt Hélène also counts.
13	* CitizenshipMarriage: Between Lucien and Tatiana. It appears that it was more than that, at least in the eyes of Lucien.
14	* CreatorCameo: The director, Anne Le Ny, appears as a swinger woman in a car.
15	* DaddysGirl: Babette who always considered her father was right about everything. She even chose to be a doctor like her father. She says she likes the same books, the same music... as her father.
16	* DirtyOldMan: Lucien Paumelle, a retired physician, try to charm a young Moldavian clandestine. She even pretends to be forced into the relationship. It is up to the viewer to decide whether this is true or false.
17	* GoldDigger: Tatiana is in a relationship with Lucien only to be allowed to stay in France and to live in a real house with her daughter.
18	* LikeFatherLikeSon:
19	** Sorina is a seductress like her mother Tatiana.
20	** Babette is a doctor like her father. She says they have the same tastes in everything.
21	* MayDecemberRomance: Between Lucien Paumelle, a retired physician, and Tatiana, a young Moldavian clandestine. Lucien is really in love with her.
22	* MealTicket: Tatiana considers Lucien as this: she is in a relationship with him only to be allowed to stay in France and to live in a real house with her daughter.
23	* NoodleIncident: Why Arnaud left the family and why Lucien stopped supporting him is left unclear.
24	* NouveauRiche: Arnaud says openly he is one. He also says he often goes to a restaurant where he eats caviar.
25	* SelfMadeMan: Arnaud is a wealthy business lawyer. It is clear he got no support from his family to get this position.
26	* SensualSlavs: Tatiana is from Moldova and speaks Russian. Her daughter Sorina also counts, given the effect she has on Arnaud's son Simon.
27	* ShoutOut: In the end, Arnaud makes reference to a famous line of ''Theatre/DoctorFaustus'' about the beauty of Helen of Troy.
28	* UglyGuyHotWife: Lucien, an older French man, is in a relationship with Tatiana, a young and attractive Moldovian woman.
29	* TheUnfavorite: Lucien stopped supporting his son Arnaud when he was young.
30	* TheVamp: Tatiana charms Lucien Paumelle, a doctor supporting many humanitarian causes. She estranges him from his daughter and son.

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