I am not too sure about much of the details of this movie other than that it is French. The English name I do not know (though have since discovered it is called 'The Army Game' – thankyou IMDb) and the date I assumed from the title that was given on the movie (however I have also discovered that it was made in 1960). The director I could not learn as his name does not appear anywhere in the credits, and if it does I do not know the French word for it (I do not speak French though I am picking up bits of grammar from the movies).
This movie was quite amusing though. It was an army movie about a rich kid and his chauffeur who have to do military service. The entire brigade are a bunch of misfits who seem to bumble through everywhere. The rich kid though is the idiot who is scared of heights and does not know how to do up his belt.
Still I found it difficult to follow this movie. It is not that the subtitles were bad: SBS do a really good job of their subtitles, but the casting made it difficult to differentiate characters and the story did not seem to have a flow to it. There was no ultimate goal and there was no way of seeing when the end would come. A brilliant movie is one where we do not want it to end, this was not the case. I was not drawn in, and though the jokes were of a reasonable standard, I did not find it to be the best structured of movies. Personally, I just wish I knew what the name was.
This movie was quite amusing though. It was an army movie about a rich kid and his chauffeur who have to do military service. The entire brigade are a bunch of misfits who seem to bumble through everywhere. The rich kid though is the idiot who is scared of heights and does not know how to do up his belt.
Still I found it difficult to follow this movie. It is not that the subtitles were bad: SBS do a really good job of their subtitles, but the casting made it difficult to differentiate characters and the story did not seem to have a flow to it. There was no ultimate goal and there was no way of seeing when the end would come. A brilliant movie is one where we do not want it to end, this was not the case. I was not drawn in, and though the jokes were of a reasonable standard, I did not find it to be the best structured of movies. Personally, I just wish I knew what the name was.