Fresh
Marcel Carne's direction is much too innately stodgy for this kind of free-form exercise, but it's enough, really, for him to simply train his camera on his enthusiastic cast.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Overview
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
Director and cast
- Marcel Carné Director
- Françoise Rosay as Margaret Molyneux
- Michel Simon as Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel
- Jean-Pierre Aumont as Billy - le laitier amoureux d'Eva
- Louis Jouvet as Archibald Soper, évèque de Bedford
- Nadine Vogel as Eva - la secrétaire des Molyneux
- Henri Guisol as Buffington - un journaliste alcoolique
- Jenny Burnay as Madame Pencil - la cuisinière des Molyneux
- Agnès Capri as la chanteuse des rues
- Annie Cariel as Elisabeth Soper - la femme de l'évêque
- Jeanne Lory as Mrs. McPhearson - la tante d'Irwin qui perd la tête
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
78%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[A] hilarious black comedy.
Caryn James, New York Times
Fresh
There are plenty of piquant absurdities.
Time Out
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