Antoine et Antoinette
1947 Comedy / Drama
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Summary
Antoine and Antoinette are a typical working class couple living in Paris. He works
as a foreman in a printing works, she is a modest sales assistant in a department store.
One day, their uneventful lives are suddenly upturned when Antoinette buys a winning lottery
ticket. But when they go to collect their winnings, the ticket has mysteriously
disappeared…
Review
In this, one of his most highly rated films, Jacques Becker uses the plot of René
Clair’s 1931 musical farce, Le Million, as a pretext for an intimate portrait
of working class life in France. He approaches his subject with the characteristic
warmth and perspicacity which made him a favourite with New Wave directors such as François
Truffaut. As in his earlier film, Goupi
mains rouges, Becker manages to combine a neo-realist cinematic style with an
engaging comic narrative. Watch out for comic giant Louis
de Funès in one of his earliest (fleeting) film appearances.
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