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Bookmark this pageLe Grand Amour (1968)
Director: Pierre Etaix
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The diminishing returns apparent in Etaix's films, derived from Tati but without the touch of genius (unmistakable even if you find Tati unfunny), came to a head with this tiresome whimsy which chose the unfortunate year of 1968 in which to satirise French bourgeois morality with a gentle affection that turns into approbation. About a respectable married man who escapes into fantasies about his nineteen-year-old secretary, only to return to the status quo a contentedly wiser man, it is witless, self-indulgent and cloyingly sentimental.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Pierre Etaix
Producer: Paul Claudon
Cast: Pierre Etaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Ketty France, Louis Mais, Alain Janey full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 86 mins
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