As a 39-year-old male viewer from remote Finland I probably wasn't quite in the intended target audience of the film but I still watched it when it was shown on a local commercial TV channel.
A bit into the film I developed 2 ideas which got me through the entire work...
1. Sometimes I imagined the protagonist Vic actually was Michael Jackson, giving the film a potential LGBT angle
2. Vic's pen pal Jacques actually was a trickster who had made up the story that he owned the château, and got to move around freely there because he actually worked there as a gardener or janitor. It's quite improbable that a random pen pal from France should turn out to be the owner of a château.
Overall I thought the film was funnier and less pretentious than, for instance, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. 7/10.
A bit into the film I developed 2 ideas which got me through the entire work...
1. Sometimes I imagined the protagonist Vic actually was Michael Jackson, giving the film a potential LGBT angle
2. Vic's pen pal Jacques actually was a trickster who had made up the story that he owned the château, and got to move around freely there because he actually worked there as a gardener or janitor. It's quite improbable that a random pen pal from France should turn out to be the owner of a château.
Overall I thought the film was funnier and less pretentious than, for instance, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. 7/10.