Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde...
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Title: May Fools (1990)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Miou-Miou | ... | Camille | |
| Michel Piccoli | ... | Milou | |
| Michel Duchaussoy | ... | Georges | |
| Bruno Carette | ... | Grimaldi | |
| Paulette Dubost | ... | Mrs. Vieuzac | |
| Harriet Walter | ... | Lily | |
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Martine Gautier | ... | Adele |
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Rozenne Le Tallec | ... | Marie-Laure |
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Jeanne Herry | ... | Françoise (as Jeanne Herry-Leclerc) |
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Renaud Danner | ... | Pierre-Alain |
| François Berléand | ... | Daniel | |
| Dominique Blanc | ... | Claire | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Serge Angeloff | ... | Adele's fiancé |
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Anne-Marie Bonange | ... | Neighbor |
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Marcel Bories | ... | Leonce |
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Like Vanya, in Malle's last film, Milou never left the family estate. His mother dies during the May 1968 student uprising in Paris. The brother who is the London correspondent for Le Monde keeps turning up the volume of the radio for the latest news. A deceased sister's interest in the estate is represented by a niece who is an antique dealer, who is most interested in grandmother's emerald ring that Milou's daughter Camille has already slipped on her finger. A non-relative, a truck driver who can't deliver his load of tomatoes in Paris, brings a nephew who was part of the uprising. Everyone is on strike and the matriarch can't be buried. Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
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Jeanne Herry, who plays Françoise (the little girl) is the real-life daughter of Miou-Miou. In 2014 she directed her first feature film, 'Elle l'adore', starring Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Opening Weekend USA:
$20,078, 24 June 1990Gross USA:
$1,576,702Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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This is a movie about the romantic awakening of an open-minded, freckle-faced ingénue named ... hold on, Milou turns out to be a gentle and wizened giant of a man, played by Michel Piccoli, who has apparently learned to live with an inappropriately cute nickname. He is living on his mother's country estate, and generally enjoying the decelerated life of landed gentry. Then his mother dies and his siblings descend on the mansion, threatening his casual existence (or maybe just questioning Milou's privilege of doing FA for a living). At the same time, the riots of 1968 are unfolding in far-away Paris.
The small group represent the different attitudes of French society at the time, we have the idealistic student who is overly anxious to see the arrival of a new world order, alongside the bourgeois reactionary who is somewhat less enthusiastic about horde of bearded baba cools putting up barricades, a housemaid who just wants to get her share of the inheritance, as well as a woman who feels impelled to take her top off for some reason. At one point, the group flee into the woods, and return the next morning. Somehow, the biggest bourgeois of all, Milou, is untouched by the quarrels around him and ends up continuing to live his placid mansion life, seemingly because he is so quaint and affable.
This movie had a few good ideas and moments, but it kind of runs out of ideas and plot after the family is assembled and their individual positions are established. In the end it's more or less a showcase for Michel Piccoli.