Happy New Year
(1973)
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Happy New Year
(1973)
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Lino Ventura | ... |
Simon
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Françoise Fabian | ... |
Françoise
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Charles Gérard | ... |
Charlot
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André Falcon | ... |
Le bijoutier
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Herself /
Elle-même
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Lilo | ... |
Madame Félix
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Claude Mann | ... |
L'intellectuel
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Frédéric de Pasquale | ... |
L'amant parisien
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Gérard Sire | ... |
Le directeur de la prison
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Silvano Tranquilli | ... |
L'amant italien
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André Barello |
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Michel Bertay |
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Norman de la Chesnaye |
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Pierre Edeline |
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Pierre Pontiche |
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Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes but by someone special he met there. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Former boxer Lino Ventura stars in this popular crime piece. But Claude Lelouche, the director of the hugely internationally successful romance Un Homme et Une Femme ensured that this too is a story of a man and a woman in which both Ventura and Francoise Fabian play their parts to perfection. Vive la Difference is the subtext of this film, and one marvels at the raw chemistry generated by the two stars. Lelouche can't help having a dig at smug left-bank intellectuals, but who can blame him for that? Nothing in this film is predictable, right to the very end. Why it seems to be unavailable in video is a mystery to me! See it!