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Dupont Lajoie (1975)
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24 August 1976 (Sweden)
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As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite...
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racist attack.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jean Carmet | ... | Georges Lajoie |
| Pierre Tornade | ... | Colin |
| Jean Bouise | ... | Inspecteur Boulard |
| Michel Peyrelon | ... | Albert Schumacher |
| Ginette Garcin | ... | Ginette Lajoie |
| Pascale Roberts | ... | Madame Colin |
| Jean-Pierre Marielle | ... | Léo Tartaffione |
| Robert Castel | ... | Loulou |
| Pino Caruso | ... | Vigorelli |
 | Isabelle Huppert | ... | Brigitte Colin |
| Jacques Chailleux | ... | Léon Lajoie |
| Henri Garcin | ... | Le haut fonctionnaire |
| Odile Poisson | ... | Mme Schumacher |
| Victor Lanoux | ... | Le costaud / Strong man |
| Mohamed Zinet | ... | Le frère de Saïd |
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100 min
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"Dupont-Lajoie" easily passes for Yves Boisset's best work.One can say the demonstration is ponderous ,one cannot deny its absolute efficiency.There's in this ruthless plot a spiral of violence which grabs the audience and pins it down till the last pictures.
A petit bourgeois,Lajoie,(Jean Carmet's finest performance) ,go camping by the seaside with his missus and his son.There he meets up with friends whose daughter Brigitte (Isabelle Huppert:it's the movie that put her on the map)has a gentle romance with the boy.Probably sexually frustrated,Lajoie tries to rape Brigitte and kills her.And there's a shanty town for emigrated workers not far from here...
The critics generally did not like it ,calling it a caricature:but since we've seen worse in real life.On the other hand, the audience made it a cult movie in France,quite rightly so.The depiction of these average Frenchmen on vacation rings true and Yves Boisset does not fall into the -all of them b...- trap:the "hero"'s son attitude shows the positive side of the human nature.
There's also a formidable spoof on these stupid "games" which the television organizes for the vacationers.Jean-Pierre Marielle ,as Leo Tartaffione ,a self-important emcee , is incredibly funny.
Maybe the last scene is questionable.But do not let it prevent you from enjoying the rest .Relatively speaking,it's the French "big carnival".