--- title: "Titeuf" year: 2011 kind: "film" canonical: "https://film.one/film/titeuf" fi1m_id: "titeuf" imdb_id: "tt1757912" tmdb_id: 61672 wikidata_id: "Q2057648" fi1m_score: 65 critics_reviews: 2 published: "2026-09-22T02:48:52.121063+00:00" updated: "2026-09-22T02:49:13.542837+00:00" region: "SK" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Titeuf (2011) Directed by Zep · 1h 27m · Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance ## Identity Titeuf - **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/titeuf - **Type:** Film - **Fi1m ID:** titeuf - **IMDb ID:** tt1757912 - **TMDB ID:** 61672 - **Wikidata ID:** Q2057648 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1757912/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/61672, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2057648 **Fi1m score: 65** · Critics: 2 of 6 reviews so far *In a sentence:* Eighty-seven minutes of fart jokes for the children and a quiet divorce for the parents driving them home > Zep puts his schoolboy on the big screen with the colours up and the jokes rude, and it is funny in bursts. The parents’ break-up is handled more honestly than expected; the girls are not, and much of the wordplay will not survive subtitles. ## Synopsis Titeuf (Donald Reignoux) is a small boy with a tall blond quiff, a best friend called Manu (Nathalie Homs) and a hopeless devotion to Nadia (Mélanie Bernier), the girl in his class. Nadia is throwing a birthday party and everyone seems to be invited except him. At home there is a baby sister, Zizie, and his parents, Papa (Sam Karmann) and Maman (Zabou Breitman), have started rowing, until one day Papa is not living at home. Titeuf decides both problems have the same cure: he must find out what makes a man irresistible and become one in time for the party. His grandparents Pépé (Jean Rochefort) and Mémé (Maria Pacôme), a psychologist (Michael Lonsdale) and daydreaming, some of it among dinosaurs, get in the way. ## Review Zep has been drawing Titeuf, a boy of about ten with a blond quiff that stands straight up, since 1992, in albums that sell by the million across the French-speaking world and in the television series that followed. For his first film he writes, directs and shares the score, and what he has made is the strip at feature length: bright, loud, rude about bodies and, underneath, more worried about grown-ups than it ever lets its hero notice. It runs 87 minutes and it is funny in bursts. Whether the bursts are enough depends on how old you are and how much French you have. The plot is two problems that Titeuf, voiced by Donald Reignoux with a permanent catch of outrage in his throat, decides are one. Nadia (Mélanie Bernier) has not invited him to her birthday party. Papa (Sam Karmann) and Maman (Zabou Breitman) have started to row, and then Papa is not at home any more. Titeuf reasons, with the logic of a boy who has learned about adults from playground rumour, that if he can work out how to be loved by Nadia he will also have worked out how to put his parents back together. He sets about it with his friend Manu (Nathalie Homs), who is even less well informed than he is. The animation keeps Zep’s line: thick black outlines, flat fields of colour, enormous heads and next to no shading, so the screen looks like the page with the panel borders taken off. Max Braslavsky’s production design puts the classroom, the family home and the shops in the same primary colours as the children, so nothing in the adult world looks any more serious than a toy. The film is at its best when Titeuf’s imagination takes over. There is a prologue among dinosaurs, a psychologist who follows him about inside his head (Jean-Luc Couchard, a nervier double of Michael Lonsdale’s real one) and a song staged on the roof of a moving train, lit and cut like a pop video, which is the one stretch that feels made for a screen larger than a television. The score by Zep and Nicolas Neidhardt is bouncy, forgettable and never in the way, which is about right for this. The jokes are about bottoms, snot, sex misunderstood from several years’ distance, and the sort of adult behaviour a child overhears and gets wrong. A good number of them live in Titeuf’s language, the “pô” for “pas”, the mangled slang, the words he has invented, and in subtitles these arrive as ordinary sentences with the fun taken out. We laughed, often, and mostly at things we would not repeat over dinner. We also sat through a stretch in the middle where his schemes to impress Nadia take the same shape three or four times running, and the film seems not to have noticed it is repeating itself. Nadia is drawn as a prize. She wants little, does less and exists to be won, and the other girls in the class are there to be pretty or to be laughed at. This is the strip’s oldest habit and its least funny one, and the film does nothing to update it. What surprised us is the divorce. The rows between Papa and Maman are heard rather than seen, half understood, and Zep leaves them half understood; nobody sits the boy down to explain. It moved us more than a film with this many fart jokes had any business doing, and the reason is plain: Titeuf never stops making plans, and we can see what he cannot, that none of them will work on his parents. Rochefort, as Pépé, gets the film’s few quiet minutes and plays them in a voice that sounds tired in the right way. Lonsdale, as the psychologist, is dry and patient and plainly enjoying himself. The strip is a one-page gag machine, and stretched to an hour and a half it shows the joins. Against the best French animation made for children it is plain to look at and plainer in its thinking; against the television series it is a good long episode with money spent on the dreams. Bring a child of ten who does not mind subtitles, or better still already has the French. You may find you are watching a different film from the one they are, and yours is the sadder. *Fi1m score 65, published 22 September 2026.* ## Straight answers **How long is Titeuf, and what is it rated?** *Titeuf* runs 1h 27m. It is an animation and comedy film. **Where can I watch Titeuf in Slovakia?** *Titeuf* is not on any streaming or rental service in Slovakia at the moment. It is available in 6 other countries; change your country at the top of the page to see where. Availability is checked daily. **What should I watch after Titeuf?** After *Titeuf*, try [*My Life as a Courgette*](https://film.one/film/my-life-as-a-zucchini) (2016, Fi1m 84): Swiss stop-motion about children with far worse homes, and far more tenderness. Then [*Ernest & Celestine*](https://film.one/film/ernest-and-celestine) (2012, Fi1m 84): French animation with a watercolour line and a much gentler sense of humour; and [*The 400 Blows*](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows) (1959, Fi1m 91): Live action, and the parents’ rows heard through a wall done for keeps. ### Reviews we read (2) - **Variety**, Boyd van Hoeij (70/100, inferred): The feature debut is mostly confident and frequently funny, with Titeuf’s childlike view of the adult world blending naivete and early-teen rebelliousness. The film integrates spectacular setpieces like a dinosaur-era prologue and a music-video sequence atop a moving train. [Read](https://variety.com/2011/film/reviews/titeuf-the-film-1117945454/) - **Eye for Film**, Amber Wilkinson (75/100, inferred): The critic finds the film vibrant, vulgar and pretty damn funny, likely to appeal especially to boys of the right age. She singles out the colourful animation and dreamscape adventures for praise while noting some stereotypical views of girls and linguistic gags that may not translate perfectly. [Read](https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/titeuf-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson) ## Details - **Director:** Zep - **Director:** Zep - **Writer:** Zep - **Music:** Zep, Nicolas Neidhardt - **Production design:** Max Braslavsky - **Producer:** Christophe Di Sabatino, Benoît Di Sabatino, Jean-Marc Fröhle - **Cast:** Donald Reignoux as Titeuf / Hugo (voice); Mélanie Bernier as Nadia (voice); Nathalie Homs as Manu / Zizie (voice); Sam Karmann as Papa (voice); Zabou Breitman as Maman (voice); Maria Pacôme as Mémé (voice); Jean Rochefort as Pépé (voice); Michael Lonsdale as Le psy (voice) - **Runtime:** 1h 27m - **First release (France):** 6 April 2011 - **Genres:** Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance - **Budget:** $15 million - **Box office:** $14 million ## Where to watch in Slovakia Not streaming, renting or buying in Slovakia at the last check. Also available in: BE, CA, CH, FR, GB, US. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *My Life as a Courgette* (2016), Fi1m 84: Swiss stop-motion about children with far worse homes, and far more tenderness. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/my-life-as-a-zucchini.md) - *A Town Called Panic* (2009): Belgian plastic toys, no rules, and the anarchy Titeuf only dreams about. - *Ernest & Celestine* (2012), Fi1m 84: French animation with a watercolour line and a much gentler sense of humour. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/ernest-and-celestine.md) - *The Peanuts Movie* (2015): Another comic-strip boy chasing a girl who will not look at him. - *The 400 Blows* (1959), Fi1m 91: Live action, and the parents’ rows heard through a wall done for keeps. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/the-400-blows.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/film/titeuf