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Director:

Claude Sautet

Writers:

Claude Néron (writer)
Claude Sautet (writer)

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Release Date:

27 October 1976 (France) more

Genre:

Drama

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations more

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Michel Piccoli ... Simon Léotard
Ottavia Piccolo ... Mado
Jacques Dutronc ... Pierre
Charles Denner ... Reynald Manecca
Romy Schneider ... Hélène
Julien Guiomar ... Lépidon
Claude Dauphin ... Vaudable
Michel Aumont ... Aimé Barachet
Jean Bouise ... André
André Falcon ... Mathelin
Benoît Allemane ... Antoine
Jacques Richard ... Girbal
Jean-Denis Robert ... Alex
Nicolas Vogel ... Maxime
Marc Chapiteau ... Francis
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Additional Details

Runtime:

135 min

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Italgema Roma more


Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:

Featured in Claude Sautet ou La magie invisible (2003) more


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Pretentious.., 15 January 2006
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Author: dbdumonteil

Sautet had jettisoned his films noirs influences which gave the great "Classes tous Risques" and the good "L'Arme à Gauche" .One could have thought that "Max et les Ferrailleurs" his best film in the seventies would herald a return to form as well as a return to what he did best.

But "Vincent François ,Paul et les Autres " had continued his chronicles of bourgeois-with-a-tender-heart which "Cesar et Rosalie" had begun ("les Choses de la Vie" is a different matter since it has an emotional power the subsequent works have not) "Mado" is more of the same.Bourgeois "in danger of despair" to quote Sautet himself.And zombie Dutronc on top of that.The scene when the cars get bogged down in the mud is the most grotesque metaphor I 've ever seen in a movie."It's the movie itself which gets bogged down " sneered the critics at the time.

Romy Schneider's fans ,beware!Her appearance does not exceed five minutes (in a 2hours+ movie)!

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