Word: jobert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goretta. 47. was previously represented in this country only by The Invitation (1975), a Chekhovian study of a disintegrating office party. In Wonderful Crook, the actors readily grasp the same light-handed spirit. Marlene Jobert as Nelly may be a little too refined for a post office clerk, and Gerard Depardieu as Pierre may be low-keyed to the point of occasional inaudibility: but both, along with Dominique Labourier as the wife, give performances of great charm...
Adding edge to quite another type of appetite is their third companion, the wife of the Swiss ambassador (Marlene Jobert). She gives the men asylum and a ride past the German checkpoint, where things do not go well. The Germans are suspicious, and the wife tears off into the desert like an ace getaway driver. The bullets fly, and it is all great fun. Jobert also takes a shine to her two anxious soldiers of fortune, although which one she truly loves becomes a source of good-humored competition...
...which, it turns out, has already been destroyed by a natural disaster. This piece of information is relayed by an ursine eccentric named Thomas (Philippe Noiret) who encounters David in the middle of his trek. Thomas offers David shelter, food and his wife, a pert sculptress named Julia (Marlene Jobert)- although he reserves the right to act wounded when his guest takes him up on all three. Thomas and Julia are enchanted with David's brooding tales of terror, and they are persuaded of his veracity when grim-looking fellows with guns start hanging around...
Even in these face-to-face meetings, though, Jobert remains an enigma. Small in stature (5 ft. 4 in.) and shy in demeanor, Jobert is a world apart from the usual backslapping, smiling politician. Born in Morocco of French parents, he did not come to France to live until he was 18. He graduated from the prestigious National School of Administration, and until Pompidou appointed him Foreign Minister in 1973, he had spent his entire career as a bureaucrat. He is quiet, shakes hands with a stiffness in his right arm from a war wound, and rarely smiles, except...
...public rallies are more of the same. Deadly serious, Jobert could almost be making a budget presentation. He rattles in a monotone through "my analysis of the situation" or a "brief analysis." But he has a certain malicious wit. When asked why he had not mentioned the name of his rival, President Giscard d'Estaing, once in the 310 pages of his memoirs, Jobert replied: "The name of the President of the Republic was too long to write...