L'an 01 (1973)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Directors:

Jacques Doillon
Alain Resnais

Writer:

Gébé (writer)

Release Date:

22 February 1973 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Work Stoppage | Political Protest | Utopia | 1960s | Labor Movement

Cast

Véronique Alain
Josiane Balasko
François Béranger
Georges Bernier
Romain Bouteille	...	Le collectionneur de billets de banque
Cabu
François Cavanna
Professeur Choron
Christian Clavier
Véronique K. Colucci	...	La dactylo (as Véronique Kantor)
Coluche	...	Le chef de bureau
Philippe Defrance
Christine Dejoux
Albert Delpy	...	Le voleur de bijoux
Gérard Depardieu	...	Un voyageur qui ne prend pas le train
Delfeil de Ton
Lee Falk	...	Le banquier (segment "New York")
Jean-Paul Farré	...	Le pompiste
Marcel Gassouk	...	Le père du chef de bureau
Gébé
Marcel Gotlib	...	Un gardien de prison
Henri Guybet	...	L'homme qui se reveille à 6 heure
Jacques Higelin
Gérard Jugnot
Nelly Kaplan
Daniel Laloux	...	Un publicitaire
Martin Lamotte
Patrice Leconte	...	Le chauffeur du général
Stan Lee	...	Récitant / New York's Narrator (voice)
Thierry Lhermitte
Patrice Minet	...	Un homme qui joue à travailler au bureau
Miou-Miou	...	La femme qui se reveille à 6 heure
Jean-Pierre Moulin	...	Le lieutenant
David Pascal	...	Le vendeur de journaux (segment "New York")
Marie Pillet	...	La femme dans l'épicerie
Maud Rayer
Jacques Robiolles
Jean-Pierre Sentier
Susan Shapiro	...	Girl in taxi - Wall St.
Jean-Paul Tribout	...	L'amoureux scientifique
Frederic Tuten	...	(scene 'New York')

Also Known As:

The Year 01 (International: English title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

UZ Productions

A long long time ago..

Some movies of the seventies seem to have been made yesterday;not this one.It's in fact one of the most dated works of its era.It's some gentler version of "Themroc" ,less pretentious, funny (in places) but not necessarily more palatable .

There's no story,but a spate of minisketches ,some of them witty,("There's no more property,so there're no more thieves" the warden says while opening the cells ),a lot of them tedious and repetitive.There was enough material to make a very good short,but 85 minutes it's inevitably too long.In a nutshell,let's stop working,let's stop producing,let's stop everything and all you need is love.Hence the title "l'an O1" (=year 01):why a 0,by the way?This is the typically "events of May 68 way of life" film.

If you like it ,try these :Claude Faraldo's "themroc" ,Agnès Varda's "l'une chante et l'autre pas" ,Jean-Luc Godard's " tout va bien"

It was Jacques Doillon's first effort.Although it seems puerile today,it nevertheless displays this director's intellectual ambitions.His best works remain the more accessible :the moving "un sac de billes" (1975)-which people who liked "au revoir les enfants" must see- and the strange disturbing "la drôlesse"(1979) which tells the story of A a hung-up young man who locks up a teenage girl in an attic.