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L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste

  • 19691969
  • 1h 35m
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6.1/10
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L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste (1969)
Comedy
Léon, a shy and dreamy tailor from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine works and lives in his apartment with his sister, Marie.Léon, a shy and dreamy tailor from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine works and lives in his apartment with his sister, Marie.Léon, a shy and dreamy tailor from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine works and lives in his apartment with his sister, Marie.
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
138
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
319,318
100,521
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    • Director
      • Jean-Daniel Pollet
    • Writers
      • Rémo Forlani(dialogue)
      • Jean-Daniel Pollet(scenario)
    • Stars
      • Bernadette Lafont
      • Chantal Goya
      • Jean-Pierre Marielle
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    • Director
      • Jean-Daniel Pollet
    • Writers
      • Rémo Forlani(dialogue)
      • Jean-Daniel Pollet(scenario)
    • Stars
      • Bernadette Lafont
      • Chantal Goya
      • Jean-Pierre Marielle
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    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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    Chantal Goya, Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Marielle, and Claude Melki in L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste (1969)
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    Bernadette Lafont
    Bernadette Lafont
    • Marie
    Chantal Goya
    Chantal Goya
    • Arlette
    Jean-Pierre Marielle
    Jean-Pierre Marielle
    • Maxime
    Claude Melki
    • Leon
    Christian de Tillière
    • Le client envoyé par Albert
    Gérard Boucaron
    Gérard Boucaron
    Vasilis Diamantopoulos
    Vasilis Diamantopoulos
    • Porphyre Aristophanopoulos
    Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
    Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
    • Le 1er client
    François Dyrek
    • Rigouille
    Rémo Forlani
    • Gros Momo
    Henri Guybet
    Henri Guybet
    • L'ami de Léon
    Anne Jennifer
    Luc Moullet
    Denise Péron
    Denise Péron
    • Mme Pompoudin
    Jacques Robiolles
    • Philippe
    Rufus
    Rufus
    • Charles
    Dominique Zardi
    Dominique Zardi
    Marcel Dalio
    Marcel Dalio
    • M. Paul
    • (as Dalio)
    • Director
      • Jean-Daniel Pollet
    • Writers
      • Rémo Forlani(dialogue) (scenario)
      • Jean-Daniel Pollet(scenario)
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    Tricks in a tailor's workroom
    The populist cinema of the thirties/forties gets a Neo New Wave treatment!

    The characters could come from "Hotel Du Nord": there's a sad tailor (Claude Melki),less-than -handsome ,and so shy he is not able to declare his love to a pretty girl (Chantal Goya ,before she became a pop singer for kiddies Under 7);a Hooker (Bernadette Lafont;who else?) who hides her immoral trade ,pretending she is a fortune-teller :nobody's fooled and all her clients are not interested in their future ;and her pimp ,an elegant fop à la Louis Jouvet (Jean-Pierre Marielle).Except for one sequence in a railway station,all the action takes place in the tailor's seedy apartment .

    IMHO,it is not a very exciting work:Claude Melki is arguably the stand-out but Remo Forlani is not Henri Jeanson ,as far the dialog is concerned ,and his lines fall flat ;Bernadette Lafont,by far the best of the two actresses ,seems to wait for something to happen concerning her character;Marielle is not much more than a walk-on;Chantal Goya ,whose part was the most interesting, is a drippy starlet ,and she plays like she sings -she had started a career as a pop singer for teenagers while working with Godard ("Masculin-Feminin" in which her immortal " Si Tu Gagnes Au Flipper" is heard).

    I almost fell asleep halfway through ,but there are interesting thespians in the supporting cast :the legendary Dalio,and Rufus ,too rare on the screens .

    It is as if Forlani,towards the end of his screenplay ,suddenly appreciated how frivolous it all was and desperately attempted to get a little humor into his story:

    -The client ,with whom Goya refused to "work" ,insulting the unfortunate tailor mistaken for her pimp :"you ought to be ashamed of your job!"

    -Then the best lines in the whole movie: "Arlette is busy picking grapes. -Harvesting grapes? In April ? In Brittany?
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    • Release date
      • March 1971 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
    • Production companies
      • Argos Films
      • Galba Films
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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