Attention, classics in your living room! This Monday night, Arte broadcasts a masterpiece of French comedy: The Eternal Elephant, it fools many. Admit it, you already want to enjoy this clean movie featuring the back of your sofa…
It was released in cinemas in 1976. The elephant deceives manyDirected by Yves Robert and one of the quintessential buddy movies, it tells the story of the friendship between four men who remain grown children as they approach their forties.
It’s hard not to fall in love with the later adventures (yes! how hard it is to do that…) by Claude Brasseur, Jean Rochefort, Victor Lanou and Guy Bedos. full of humor and tenderness, The elephant deceives many Filled with iconic scenes: Annie Duper in a parking lot vent, Jean Rochefort perched on a Parisian balcony, the same Jean Rochefort on horseback above a family picnic, a tennis game interrupted by Marte Villalonga…
It is not so difficult to analyze: this film, which throws the audience into sweet bliss, does good and makes you happy!
3 million viewers, Cesar and… the American remake!
A little gem from the 70s, with brilliant music by Vladimir Kosma, The elephant deceives many It was a huge public success in French cinemas with almost three million viewers.
But it also did very well overseas, so much so that it was the subject of an American remake called The Girl in Red, set to the iconic song. I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder.
The elephant deceives manywhich allowed Claude Brasser The César for Best Supporting Actor went to the sequel, We’ll All Go to Heaven, which opened in theaters a year later, for Daniel, one of French cinema’s first “positive” homosexual characters.
Tonight at Arte at 20:55.
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