Nous maigrirons ensemble (1979)
Directed by Michel Vocoret

Comedy
aka: We'll Grow Thin Together

Film Synopsis

Victor Lasnier, a screenwriter, is fed up of being made a laughing stock just because he is overweight.  Determined to lose weight to make himself more attractive to the opposite sex, he is easy prey for charlatans who know a sucker when they see one.  Then he meets the seductive Patricia, who claims to know of a sure-fire way to become thin and beautiful...
© James Travers
The above content is owned by frenchfilms.org and must not be copied.


Film Credits

  • Director: Michel Vocoret
  • Script: Michel Vocoret
  • Music: Pierre Perret
  • Cast: Peter Ustinov (Victor Lasnier), Bernadette Lafont (Corinne), Catherine Alric (Patricia), Sylvie Joly (Geneviève Minkiewicz, docteur en bio-énergie), Jacques Jouanneau (Manuel Orlandi), Alfred Adam (Le producteur Blangenstein), Michel Modo (Le clerc de notaire), Jacqueline Doyen (directrice Weight Watchers), Maurice Illouz (Jean-Louis, l'entraîneur club de gym), Virginie Pradal (La chauffeuse de taxi), André Valardy (Serveur brasserie), Nella Barbier (Femme salon de coiffure), Paul-Emile Deiber (Le diététicien), Françoise Deldick (Gilberte, des Weight Watchers), Daniel Derval (L'homo club de gym), Bernard Dumaine (L'employé de la fourrière), Yves Elliot (Marcel, des Weight Watchers), Sylvie Folgoas (Jacqueline, des Weight Watchers), Alain Ganas (Le coiffeur), Jacqueline Guy (La cliente salon de coiffure malmenée)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color (Eastmancolor)
  • Runtime: 100 min
  • Aka: We'll Grow Thin Together

Kafka's tortuous trial of love
sb-img-0
Franz Kafka's letters to his fiancée Felice Bauer not only reveal a soul in torment; they also give us a harrowing self-portrait of a man appalled by his own existence.
The very best of German cinema
sb-img-25
German cinema was at its most inspired in the 1920s, strongly influenced by the expressionist movement, but it enjoyed a renaissance in the 1970s.
The best French Films of the 1920s
sb-img-3
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
sb-img-5
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
The silent era of French cinema
sb-img-13
Before the advent of sound France was a world leader in cinema. Find out more about this overlooked era.
 

Other things to look at


Copyright © frenchfilms.org 1998-2024
All rights reserved



All content on this page is protected by copyright