Cathia Caro Movies
- 1959
Jean-Louis Trintignant's star was just rising when he took on the role of Carlo in this engrossing wartime coming-of-age story. Carlo is a young man living in his own world and blithely inattentive to the real war that is happening not very far away. This is particularly striking because he is the son of a high-level fascist. The year is 1943 and he has gone to a seaside resort on vacation where he meets the beautiful, older widow Roberta (Eleonora Rossi Drago). Carlo is smitten and in spite of various obstacles, he and Roberta enter into a romantic liaison. Then one day Allied forces land on the coast and Carlo is faced with the realities of war and a reassessment of his life. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, (more)
- 1959
At almost two hours, this mediocre comedy by director Mauro Bolognini runs a bit long. The story is about a down-and-out husband and wife, forced to look anywhere for a place to live. They have children and are desperate enough to take whatever they can find. What the father finds -- without telling his family -- is a closed-down house of ill repute. They move in but the father is hard put to constantly hide the truth about their lodgings, in one way or another. It is this sole pursuit of disguising where they are that fuels the comedy, at times naturally veering into the risque -- or as some viewers might feel, into plain bad taste. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Laura Adani
- 1959
Several top Italian stars, including Toto as a shopkeeper and Also Fabrizi as a tax collector, are featured in this entertaining comedy. The shopkeeper like a lot of others, does not want to pay the taxes he is normally assessed. By his reckoning, they are far too high. So when the tax collector comes around to go over his books, he tries whatever might work to get the man to skim them lightly, preferably looking the other way in the process. Whether or not these proddings are going to have any effect remains to be seen, but in the meantime, the taxman's daughter has fallen madly in love with the shopkeeper's son. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Totò, Louis de Funès, (more)
- 1958
This nonsensical swashbuckler stars Jean Marais as a "lovable rogue" named LaTour. Generally loyal to no one but himself, La Tour swears eternal fidelity to King Louis XIV during a moment of national crisis in France. When he's not dueling for his life or romancing the ladies, our hero is prone to bursting out in song (Ah, this must be the "singing cavalier" alluded to in Singin' in the Rain). Filmed on an epic scale in Yugoslavia, La Tour, Prends Barde! nonetheless cost a lot less than American costume dramas of the period. The film was reissued to U.S. television under a variety of titles in the 1960s. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean Marais, Cathia Caro, (more)
- 1958
Un Drole de Dimanche (What a Sunday) stars Danielle Darrieux as Catherine and Bourvil as her ex-husband Jean. By chance, Catherine and Jean are reunited five years after she walked out of his life. In a fit of romantic nostalgia, Jean mentally reconstructs the events that led up to their separation. He then determines to win her back, certain that he'll never, ever make the same mistakes again? or will he? Listed fifth in the cast of Un Drole de Dimanche is a young sprout named Jean Belmondo, who as Jean-Paul Belmondo would burst onto the international film scene in Godard's Breathless. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Danielle Darrieux, Bourvil, (more)
- 1956
Isabelle (Cathia Caro) is afraid of men: this much the audience knows from the film's title. The reason? Because Isabelle's mother likes men -- lots and lots of men. Our heroine is unable to appreciate her mother's insatiable sexual appetite...until she falls in love herself. Then, to paraphrase an American colloquialism, it's "Isabelle, bar the door!" Isabelle a Pour des Hommes is essentially a teenage-angst film, and as such was one of several glutting the market in 1957. This is why the film didn't get much play in America, where films of this nature were as commonplace as German measles. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cathia Caro, Michel Francois, (more)
