Word: broca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blame? Partly Cassel, mostly Director Philippe de Broca. As before, De Broca has cast Cassel as a sort of Don Juan in diapers. He plays the younger son in a cheery Charles Addams family that inhabits a large, sunny, 19th century cobweb littered with charming bits of bric-a-brac and squalling testimonials to the efficacy of the hero's family motto: "Fructify!" The family lives in a dream world all its own, posing for imaginary deathbed scenes of famous men. playing baroque quintets in the evening, avidly at all times hankering after news of the hero...
...LOVE GAME. Philippe de Broca's bedspring farce, the first comedy turned up by the new wave of French cinéastes, bounces along like the movies did when Rene Clair first made them...
...such a fribble, treatment is everything, and the man responsible for that is Director Philippe de Broca. who never before made a movie on his own and now emerges as the biggest comic talent of the new school of Gallic cinema. Considering his youth and inexperience, De Broca's technique is startlingly mature. He has a frenzied flair for sight and prop gags, but he never lets them disturb the deeper humor of the scene-many moviegoers may for instance fail to observe that the painter-hero cleans his brushes on, of all things, an old black...
...Broca, the comedy that counts is the comedy of character, and in Cassel he has found a richly responsive instrument to play on: a comedian who, like Chaplin or Marie Dressier, is more an actor than a performer. And through the character Cassel creates-a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian...