Cookies (1975)

Henri is a middle-aged travelling umbrella salesman from Saumur who lives a sexless and unhappy married life with his puritan wife and two children. Painting is the only true passion of ... See full summary »

Director:

Joël Séria

Writer:

Joël Séria

Stars:

Jean-Pierre Marielle, Dolores McDonough, Jeanne Goupil

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jean-Pierre Marielle	...	Henri
Dolores McDonough	...	Angela / Émile's girlfriend (as Dolores Mac Donough)
Jeanne Goupil	...	Marie / Maid
Claude Piéplu	...	Le pèlerin / Le barde breton-The pilgrim / The Breton bard
Bernard Fresson	...	Émile / Le peintre-The painter
Andréa Ferréol	...	La cliente au portrait
Romain Bouteille	...	Le curé / The priest
Martine Ferrière	...	La soeur du pélerin / La soeur du barde
Gisèle Grimm	...	Mme Serin / Henri's wife
Louison Roblin	...	La marchande de la première boutique / La commerçante
André Chaumeau	...	Le commerçant obséquieux
Anne Alexandre	...	L'hôtelière
René Berthier	...	Le V.R.P.
Jean Legall	...	Le taré (as Jean Le Gall)
Evane Hanska	...	La serveuse

Storyline

Henri is a middle-aged travelling umbrella salesman from Saumur who lives a sexless and unhappy married life with his puritan wife and two children. Painting is the only true passion of Henri but he also has an affection for female buttocks. One night, on the roads of Brittany he hits a boar with his car. Émile, a rude and carefree painter who lives in a cottage near Riec-sur-Belon meets him and invites him to stay at his house while the car is being fixed. Henri falls in love with his Canadian live-in girlfriend Angela who draws Henri's attention with her beautiful buttocks. They leave Émile after a violent confrontation and move to Pont-Aven, 'the city of painters'. Angela encourages Henri to continue his life as a painter and he sees this as an opportunity to leave his earlier life behind. However, Angela soon dumps him for Émile and Henri becomes a drunkard, butt of jokes in the town, and a painter unable to sell a single painting. Marie, the teenage maid working at the pension ...

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Plot Keywords:

pont aven | drunkenness | portrait | painting | painter | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

R

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jeanne Goupil made the paintings used in the film.

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Connections

Featured in The Hidden Side of the Bottom (2009)

User Reviews

Sex and tradition in rural Brittany.

This original sexual comedy by the director Joël Séria, who also made the popular TV-series "Nestor Burma", is full of unexpected situations between a man and women. A salesman of umbrellas, Henri Serin (a magnificent Jean-Pierre Marielle), is having sex with all the women of which he paints a portrait and which he encounters during his travels. While one is cooking in her kitchen, he is painting. Once he is invited but immediately expelled when he wants to unfold her traditional ribbon. Henri Serin falls for a very young woman which he can seduce while making a portrait of her. His only friend is a modernist priest (Romain Bouteille) who likes to talk with him in the local bar. Henri Serin does not think of tomorrow and lives "la vie d'artiste". Life is beautiful and sex is life.

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

23 January 1977 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cookies

Filming Locations:

Névez, Finistère, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Coquelicot Films, Orphée Arts, Orphée Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)