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Le bal des casse-pieds

  • 19921992
  • 1h 39m
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5.4/10
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Le bal des casse-pieds (1992)
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Henri Sauveur, a veterinarian in his fifties, is harassed by his parents, friends and working relationships. He leaves with Louise in Normandy to live the perfect love. But again, the pitfal... Read allHenri Sauveur, a veterinarian in his fifties, is harassed by his parents, friends and working relationships. He leaves with Louise in Normandy to live the perfect love. But again, the pitfalls seem to wait for him.Henri Sauveur, a veterinarian in his fifties, is harassed by his parents, friends and working relationships. He leaves with Louise in Normandy to live the perfect love. But again, the pitfalls seem to wait for him.
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    • Yves Robert
    • Jean-Loup Dabadie(original scenario)
    • Yves Robert(original scenario)
  • Stars
    • Jean Rochefort
    • Miou-Miou
    • Jean Carmet
    • Yves Robert
    • Jean-Loup Dabadie(original scenario)
    • Yves Robert(original scenario)
  • Stars
    • Jean Rochefort
    • Miou-Miou
    • Jean Carmet
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    Miou-Miou, Jean Rochefort, and Jean Yanne in Le bal des casse-pieds (1992)
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    Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort
    • Henri Sauveur
    Miou-Miou
    Miou-Miou
    • Louise Sherry
    Jean Carmet
    Jean Carmet
    • M. Vandubas
    Odette Laure
    • Mme Vandubas
    Hélène Vincent
    Hélène Vincent
    • Marie Paule
    Jacques Villeret
    Jacques Villeret
    • Jérôme
    Victor Lanoux
    Victor Lanoux
    • Frank
    Wojciech Pszoniak
    Wojciech Pszoniak
    • Groboniek
    Guy Bedos
    Guy Bedos
    • Germain
    Michel Piccoli
    Michel Piccoli
    • Désiré
    Jean-Pierre Bacri
    Jean-Pierre Bacri
    • L'homme à la rayure
    Valérie Lemercier
    Valérie Lemercier
    • Mme Breteille
    Véronique Sanson
    Véronique Sanson
    • Fanny
    Claude Brasseur
    Claude Brasseur
    • Le séducteur
    Philippe Uchan
    Philippe Uchan
    • Marius, le maître d'hôtel
    Didier Gustin
    • Le gominé
    Patrick Timsit
    • Le normal
    Eric Le Roch
      • Yves Robert
      • Jean-Loup Dabadie(original scenario) (dialogue)
      • Yves Robert(original scenario)
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    this dance is too old-fashioned to be caught in the pace
    When his movies deal with childhood, the towering achievements that are: "the War of Buttons" (1962), "my Father's Glory" and "my Mother's Castle" (1990), Yves Robert makes unforgettable movies which are on a par with François Truffaut's. They even surpass them. Here, "the Dance of the Pain in the Necks" (1992) is of a different register since it is a comedy of manners and coming after the adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's childhood memories, it's a spectacular let-down. Here's why: pain in the neck characters fed a lot literature (Molière in the seventeenth century had written a play entitled "les Facheux") and cinema (Jean Dréville shot a colorful comedy simply called "les casse-pieds" in 1948). Robert and his screenwriter Jean Loup Dabadie revived this formula to deliver which seems to be on the paper an updated version. As a matter of fact, the adjective "updated" doesn't suit at all to qualify this movie. If a movie made in 1991 doesn't adapt the involved subject of the pain in the neck characters to the comical fashions and the social manners of its time, do you think it has the single chance to be a worthy artistic work and to attract crowds? The answer is no and this is on this point that Robert's opus has its major flaws. His movie is a courageous but bound to fail undertaking. Already, since "les Casse-pieds" and even in the space of 44 years ago, times have changed. Viewers's tastes have evolved and they have adapted to new comical references. Here, we have already seen thousands of times in cinema a good part of the gags used and certain gained an overrated reputation. The result is an enormous gap between Robert's opus which is several carriages behind and the expectations from the generations of the early nineties. Had the movie been open forty or fifty years ago, it would have certainly worked better.

    The amount? An old-fashioned movie that brings out a tasty dreariness. The machine never really starts and before our eyes, it's a series or rather a juxtaposition of sequences with a well-worn comic. However hard a swarm of actors gives the best they can by doing their little act, it is no use. Too bad for the ones who did better acting before in other kinds of movies (Jean Yanne shone in "the Beast must die", 1969 and " the butcher" 1969 by Claude Chabrol) and the others who deserve better (Jean Pierre Bacri is on top form when he writes scripts and still more when he acts in them with his fellow worker Agnès Jaoui. Ah! "Cooking and Dependences", 1993 "a Family Likeness", 1996). Moreover, it seems that the movie was made with means saving. Witnesses? Two-bit scenery, particularly the jerry-built New York at the very end.

    Why not choosing "les Casse-Pieds" instead?
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    • Jun 4, 2005

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      • February 12, 1992 (France)
      • France
      • French
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      • Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, France
    • Production companies
      • Gaumont
      • Les Productions de la Guéville
      • TF1 Films Production
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    • 1 hour 39 minutes
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