Word: rappeneau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHATEAU. French Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting in this fresh and funny farce about how in Gaul all marriages seem to be divided into three partners...
...TEAU. French Screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau (That Man From Rio) makes his directorial debut with a fresh and funny farce about the German Occupation and the French preoccupation...
...CHATEAU. French Screen writer Jean-Paul Rappeneau (That Mar From Rio) makes his directorial debut with a fresh and funny farce about th German Occupation and the French pre occupation...
...comedy, even the Occupation takes second place to the preoccupation-cherchez la femme. The plot is as old as Gaul, and only a new director would have the gall to tell it again: the sleepy middle-aged husband, the nubile wife, the young stranger (Henri Garcin). But Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 33, has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting. An actor in the mugging tradition of Toto and Fernandel, Philippe Noiret is excellent as the pawky, paunchy husband; and Catherine Deneuve, as his restless wife, is as light and tart as a lemon soufflé. They...