The absurd pair's bowler hats give the film a whiff of Dadaism and René Magritte's Surrealist paintings, while the in - bred Van Peteghems, including Aude and André's
idiot brother Christian (Jean - Luc Vincent), invoke Monty Python's «upper - class twits» — Pythonesque, too, is the severed foot La Loute's mother offers her hungry brood — or even the self - indulgent gentry of Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (1939).