Why are so many (the vast majority in fact) of the french films in this Criterion Collection so exceptionally banal??? Like this one, they seem to be nothing more than pilots for sit-coms??? And why so many?? Is this all the French have to offer? By contrast, the Russian films, of which there are only 8 offerings, are profoundly unforgettable --- and there are hundreds more like them which Hulu has not represented in the collection. As an American student of French and Russian, I have no particular bias, but am simply astounded by the superficiality of French cinema vis-a-vis the Russian.