Director: Julien Hervé
Two very different French families collide over a wedding announcement in Cocorico, a 2024 comedy from director Julien Hervé that turns a DNA test into a household earthquake.
What is Cocorico about?
When the Bouvier-Sauvages, a haughty aristocratic clan, learn that their son is marrying into the far less polished Martin family, the two households agree to mark the occasion with genetic testing as a wedding gift for the young couple. The results land like a detonation: long-held assumptions about bloodlines, breeding, and belonging come apart in front of everyone. Christian Clavier and Didier Bourdon anchor the fallout as patriarchs forced to reckon with identities they never questioned, while Sylvie Testud and Marianne Denicourt navigate the fallout among the women of both houses. What starts as farce about snobbery and class pretension turns into something more pointed about how families define who counts as "one of us," using the wedding-season setup as cover for a broader comedy of manners.
Cast & crew
Clavier and Bourdon, two of French comedy's most familiar faces, lead an ensemble built for broad reactions and quick reversals, with Testud, Denicourt, and a rounded-out cast of relatives keeping the two family camps distinct enough to track through the chaos.
Context & significance
Cocorico arrives from French director Julien Hervé as a 2024 comedy built around a premise familiar to farce: a single revealed secret upending a household's sense of itself. The DNA-test hook gives the film a modern excuse for old-fashioned social comedy about class, ancestry, and the myths families tell about their own origins, running a lean 91 minutes that keeps the escalating reveals moving at a brisk pace rather than dragging out the setup.
Where & how to watch
Cocorico streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Persian subtitles, part of a catalog built for Persian-speaking audiences. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to sign in and watch; this page itself is open to read without logging in.