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26/01/2014 08:11 par tellurikwaves

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26/01/2014 08:06 par tellurikwaves

Saturday matinee B-Movie in a little town in France in 1955

Author: Mario Bergeron from Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Canada
5 July 2001

Two aging stars of the French Cinema (Morlay and the great Simon) are the only two reasons to have a nostalgic look at this little film. The two are doin' very fine, while the rest of the cast is over acting.(Surtout Maurice Baquet...Insupportable !) Michel Simon plays a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter (Choureau). She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't(doesn't) understand why.The story is too simple,too conservative, without a spark of imagination. This is the kind of movie that was very popular in small towns of France during the 1950's. It was always the first part of a double feature.

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26/01/2014 08:00 par tellurikwaves

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26/01/2014 07:55 par tellurikwaves

à gauche : Jean Brochard (I VITTELLONI...etc)

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26/01/2014 07:53 par tellurikwaves

Paris mid-fifties

Author: dbdumonteil
5 October 2013

Monsieur Martin's nickname ,"Pipelet" ,is taken from Eugène Sue's mammoth novel "Les Mystères De Paris;"Pipelet"has become a common name for the "Concierges",a very frequent job at the time .André Hunebelle was not what they call "an auteur" :he used to see which way the Wind blew and made gentle comedies (like this one) ,sword and sandal movies and spythrillers,depending on the taste of the era .

Michel Simon was,as usual ,perfect as the lead :although his daughter has just got her Baccalauréat -which,at the time,was something !- ,he always enjoys using slang with one of the tenants ,a would be "writer" ,maybe a nod to his old part in "Fric Frac " ;otherwise,I think that his then-co-star Arletty would have made a much better wife than sluggish Gaby Morlay ,who is too distinguished to play a woman of the people successfully.

This is more a succession of daily life vignettes than a real screenplay;the love affair between the Concierge's daughter and the owner of the house (a self made man who has become the king of canned peas)does not take more than 20 minutes in the whole film.

There are some interesting lines:"Why should we call him "Monsieur Richet" whereas he calls us "My good fellow"? "So princes don't marry Shepherd girls? Who do you think you are?the king of canned peas whose father was a greengrocer!would you call your son a prince?" Louis De Funès is cast as Simon's brother-in-law but he already has a tendency to overplay Louis Velle would become famous in the early seventies thanks to "La Demoiselle D'Avignon" TV series . It's an old-fashioned movie,but it shows the little world of men and women of the people in the mid-fifties.

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26/01/2014 07:47 par tellurikwaves

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26/01/2014 07:45 par tellurikwaves

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26/01/2014 07:42 par tellurikwaves

à droite Noël Roquevert

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26/01/2014 07:25 par tellurikwaves

Sens critique
Brave petite comédie

Tout ce qu’il y a dans ce film gentillet, c’est-à-dire pas grand chose, sinon des numéros d’acteurs à la bonne trogne connue,une plongée dans un Paris bien lointain et une France presque disparue,  finit par constituer un bon spectacle de samedi soir, en somme.

La situation présentée n’est d’ailleurs pas si antédiluvienne  que ça, c’est-à-dire la réticence des bourgeois propriétaires de l’immeuble à voir leur fils – Louis Velle – qui termine sa médecine s’acoquiner avec la charmante fille – Etchika Choureau – des concierges, Michel Simon et Gaby Morlay. Croit-on que la situation serait différente aujourd’hui ?

En fait, si, elle le serait : il n’y a plus de concierges et la répartition sociale ne se fait plus verticalement (l’immeuble étant de moins en moins chic au fur et à mesure que l’on gravit les étages) mais horizontalement (les quartiers se communautarisant, en quelque sorte) ; j’ai déjà évoqué cette évolution sociologique sur je ne sais plus quel film,Pot-Bouille ou Papa, Maman, la bonne et moi, ou les deux, peut-être.

Ce dernier film est d’ailleurs de la même année que L’Impossible Monsieur Pipelet et réunit aussi Gaby Morlay et Louis de Funès;il me paraît nettement, très nettement moins superficiel il est vrai que l’histoire contée est plus homogène…

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26/01/2014 07:10 par tellurikwaves

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