La Chaleur du sein is a good example of the kind of comic farce which earned Jean
Boyer his reputation as a successful and popular film director of the 1930s and 1940s... [More...]
One of the most famous and best-loved of French film musicals, Romance de Paris is probably
the closest that French cinema managed to get to recreating the glamour and charm of the
traditional Hollywood musical of the... [More...]
With its amusing variation on the Cyrano de Bergerac story, La Bonne étoile
is a competently directed, yet mildly lacklustre, romantic comedy... [More...]
Le Rosier de Madame Husson is an engaging comic farce based on a short story by
Guy de Maupassant. The setting, characters and dialogue are typical creations of
Marcel Pagnol... [More...]
A fine example of French comic farce from the 1950s, Jean Boyer’s Le Passe-muraille
is best known for effectively launching the film career of its star... [More...]
In this re-make of a popular 1932 French film directed by Réné Guissart,
that incomparable "fou de rire" Fernandel regales us with one of his most memorable comic
performances... [More...]
The most notable thing about this low-key comedy is that it marks the film début
of Brigitte Bardot. Far from being the sex goddess which she became a few years
later... [More...]
The incomparable – and still enormously popular
– Fernandel
finally finds his match in the form of Suzy Delair in this low-brow but hugely entertaining
farce... [More...]
With its colourful characters, sunny rural setting and distinctive lead
actors (Fernandel, Ginette Leclerc and Rellys), Le Chômeur de Clochemerle is
immediately evocative of the films of Marcel Pagnol... [More...]
Clearly intended to showcase the talent of its star – the much-loved
horse-faced comic actor Fernandel – for playing colourful characters in
O.T.T... [More...]
