Le Duplex
The Berger family lives on the sixth and top floor of a Parisian building. They feel so good there that they would like to expand their space and dream of taking over the very nice apartment of the Tissandier family, their friendly neighbors on the fifth floor, in order to create a lovely duplex that matches their ambitions. However, the Tissandier family is happy in their apartment and has no intention of moving at all. What can the Berger family do then? They are left with only one solution: to use all possible means to achieve their goals, even the most questionable and especially the most unlikely...
Summary
“Le Duplex” (2024) is a Paris-set comedy about the Berger family, who live on the sixth and top floor of a desirable apartment building. Comfortable in their home but increasingly captivated by the possibilities of a larger space, they begin dreaming of transforming their apartment and the one directly below it into an elegant duplex. The only obstacle is the Tissandier family, their pleasant neighbors on the fifth floor, who are perfectly happy where they are and have no interest in moving. What starts as an enviable real-estate fantasy gradually becomes an increasingly determined campaign. With persuasion proving ineffective, the Bergers consider a series of schemes designed to make the Tissandiers reconsider their position. Their efforts grow more inventive, more intrusive, and considerably less respectable, testing the limits of friendship and neighborly civility while exposing the lengths people may go to in pursuit of comfort and status. At the center are the ambitious Bergers, whose desire for a dream home slowly eclipses their sense of proportion, and the Tissandiers, whose attachment to their apartment turns them into unexpectedly formidable opponents. Their clash drives the film’s humor, as everyday exchanges in the building become a comic battle of wills. Beneath its farcical premise, “Le Duplex” explores property obsession, social aspiration, and the possessive instincts that can hide behind respectable domestic life. It also satirizes the polished image of bourgeois harmony, suggesting how quickly courtesy can give way to manipulation when personal ambition is involved. The result is a mischievous, darkly comic portrait of neighborly conflict and the absurd value people place on having just a little more space.
