Directed by: Max Pécas
Stars: Luq Hamet, Eric Reynaud-Fourton, Leila Fréchet, Noëlle Noblecourt, Brigitte Lahaie, Krystyna Ferentz, Claude Bruna, Véronique Catanzaro
Language: French | Subtitles: English
Country: France | Imdb Info
Also known as: On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez
Description: Juliette is supposed to spend the summer in Brittany, buried in books and preparing for exams after a disappointing school year. Her parents believe the plan is settled: discipline, revision, and a quiet holiday far away from temptation.
Juliette has other ideas.
Instead of heading obediently toward study and family supervision, she escapes south to Saint-Tropez, determined to join her boyfriend and enjoy the kind of sunny, careless vacation she believes she deserves. The beaches are crowded, the parties are loud, the flirtations are constant, and the whole resort seems designed to reward bad decisions.
But Juliette’s romantic escape collapses almost as soon as it begins. Her boyfriend is not as faithful as she imagined, and Saint-Tropez turns out to be much smaller than expected. Before long, she discovers that her father is also there — not on business, not alone, and certainly not behaving like the respectable parent who sent her away to study.
From that moment, the holiday becomes a chain reaction of lies, jealousies, mistaken encounters, and desperate cover-ups. Juliette tries to manage her own romantic humiliation while also dealing with her father’s secret affair. Then her mother arrives, turning a private summer embarrassment into a full family explosion under the Mediterranean sun.
Let’s Calm Down and Drink Fresh in Saint-Tropez is pure late-80s French beach comedy: silly, broad, sunburned, and built around the collision between parental hypocrisy and youthful rebellion. Its Saint-Tropez is not a realistic resort so much as a comic playground where everyone is chasing pleasure, everyone is lying badly, and every explanation only makes the scandal worse.
Legacy Note:
Let’s Calm Down and Drink Fresh in Saint-Tropez was the final film directed by Max Pécas, a filmmaker closely associated with French erotic comedy, beach farce, and popular lowbrow entertainment. It also closes his informal Saint-Tropez trilogy, following Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez and Deux enfoirés à Saint-Tropez.
By 1987, this style of sex comedy was already beginning to feel like a relic of an earlier permissive era, but that is part of the film’s time-capsule charm. The ingredients are unmistakable: topless beaches, loud misunderstandings, macho posturing, broad stereotypes, vacation chaos, and a relaxed disregard for good taste. With appearances from Brigitte Lahaie, Leila Fréchet, Luq Hamet, and others, the film preserves a very specific strain of French popular comedy — disposable, sunny, shameless, and impossible to separate from the Saint-Tropez fantasy machine of the 1980s.
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