Léon, a shy and dreamy tailor from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine works and lives in his apartment with his sister, Marie.
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Title: Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad (1969)
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| Bernadette Lafont | ... | Marie | |
| Chantal Goya | ... | Arlette | |
| Jean-Pierre Marielle | ... | Maxime | |
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Claude Melki | ... | Leon |
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Christian de Tillière | ||
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Gérard Boucaron | ||
| Vasilis Diamantopoulos | |||
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Jacques Doniol-Valcroze | ... | Le 1er client |
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François Dyrek | ||
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Rémo Forlani | ||
| Henri Guybet | |||
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Anne Jennifer | ||
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Luc Moullet | ||
| Denise Péron | |||
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Jacques Robiolles | ||
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Léon, a shy and dreamy tailor from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine works and lives in his apartment with his sister, Marie.
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March 1971 (France) See more »Also Known As:
El amor es triste, el amor es alegre See more »Company Credits
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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?