Poisson d'avril

Name: Poisson d'avril
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1954-07-28
Duration: 1 h 42 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Bourvil, Annie Cordy, Jacqueline Noëlle

1954
1h 42m

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5.8/10

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Comedy

Emile is mechanic in a garage, he saves each month a share of his salary to buy his wife Charlotte a washing machine. Unfortunately, he is "twisted" by a salesman who makes him buy ultra-mod... Read allEmile is mechanic in a garage, he saves each month a share of his salary to buy his wife Charlotte a washing machine. Unfortunately, he is "twisted" by a salesman who makes him buy ultra-modern fishing tackle.Emile is mechanic in a garage, he saves each month a share of his salary to buy his wife Charlotte a washing machine. Unfortunately, he is "twisted" by a salesman who makes him buy ultra-modern fishing tackle.

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5.8/10

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Trivia
This movie like others French ones of that period shows the changing economic times of the 30 years boom called 'Les Trente Glorieuses'. Émile goes to buy an automatic clothes washer for his wife. As a mechanic, he takes care of more cars and with those many cars around, people tend to go farther from Paris for relaxation . Lagny where he goes fishing is about 15 miles east from Paris while Nogent, famous before the war a Sunday destination as show in Carné's 'Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche', was easily reached by train and was about 8 miles. away to the east also.

Soundtracks
Aragon et Castille
Music by Boby Lapointe and Étienne Lorin
Lyrics by Boby Lapointe
Performed by Bourvil

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8/10

The fishing rod.

Mr. Gilles Grangier (the director), Gérad Carlier (screenplay) and Michel Audiard (dialogues) are geniuses: they made a nice and funny comedy about a fishing rod !! The story is really pleasant; Émile Dupuy , a mechanic who has saved money for a washmachine for his wife, goes tho a department store and is convinced by a quite astute salesman to buy a fishing rod.Then Émile will go every Sunday to the countryside for fishing, he will tell his family the fish is very go for the health,etc.And Émile will live other adventures during these sundays. It's the first film where Bourvil and Louis de Funès are together (although the scene with Louis de Funès is quite short) and they will make together great films as "Le Corniaud" and "La grande vadrouille": I have the feeling that both always enjoyed to work together. The performances of Bourvil, Annie Cordy (Mrs Dupuy) and Louis de Funès are very good.

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