Daniele Evenou Movies
- 1975
The feature debut of prominent French director Patrice Leconte is a spoof of the detective genre, done in absurdist, deadpan style. Gaspard Gazul (Roland Dubillard), a harmless bus ticket puncher, has been blown up in his own water closet with the door locked from the inside. A po-faced police inspector (Jean Rochefort) and his bumbling assistant (Coluche) investigate the case. The denouement is remarkably nonsensical, as is most of the film's plot. Most characters are comic variations of archetypes from classical French whodunits. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean Rochefort, Coluche, (more)
- 1973
Art precedes life in this French comedy about a group of social security recipients who go on a crime spree when their checks are late. Not long after the film was made, social security recipients got together for a large protest demonstration. Stand-up comic Jacques Martin plays Chapulet who washed out of a career in the army, tried but failed to become a priest, and now hangs around his favorite church (which is failing, of course) trying to help out. After giving a fiery revolutionary speech to a group of elderly parishioners whose checks are late, they go out without him and pull off a heist. Aghast, he tries to smooth things over before the police haul them off to jail. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1973
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1972
In this French romantic tragedy, introverted soldier Leon and the lovely Leonie fall in love, but unfortunately, poor Leon has been emotionally damaged by his overbearing mother and the horrors he endured while at war and is unable to keep their love alive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacques Brel, Barbara, (more)
- 1966
The Saint (Jean Marais) and his dim-witted sidekick Uniatz (Jess Hahn) spring in to action in this slapstick comedy spy actioner. The duo goes after a cache of American cash left over from World War II used in an undercover operation. The two battle rival international agents also after the sizeable sum. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean Marais, Henri Virlojeux, (more)
