How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 731 731

Director

Georges Lautner Photo
Georges Lautner

Top cast

Jacques Marin Photo
Jacques Marin as Le brocanteur déménageur
Mireille Darc Photo
Mireille Darc as Marie Cruchet dite "Eloise"
Jean Carmet Photo
Jean Carmet as Paulo
Bernadette Lafont Photo
Bernadette Lafont as Sophie
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960.6 MB
1280*768
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  hu  ro  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
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1.74 GB
1802*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  hu  ro  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 1
961.7 MB
1280*768
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  hu  ro  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 1
1.74 GB
1802*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  hu  ro  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

Madam switches off the red light.

Dismissed as rubbish by most of the French critics ,"Les Bons Vivants " is nonetheless a very funny comedy ,with lots of good lines by Audiard : it's entertaining , it's not head cinema, but why deny yourself a good laugh?This is a movie made of three sketches ,the mcguffin of which is a lantern . 1°)the closure :lines warn us before it all begins :they put people out of business: it may be a factory ,a farm ...unemployment is looming It actually concerns a brothel ;the Marthe Richard law from 1946 closed all those places. The boss (Bernard Blier) and his ladies are lambasted ;some try to move into a new type of employment: nightclub hostesses, music hall ;some study the Assimil method (English without tears) to emigrate ;some will have to be streetwalkers . All are on the verge of tears .Don't ask for Maupassant's "La Maison Tellier" ! It's much fun though.The lantern (the red light) is given to the most deserving boarder.2) The trial : thanks to men (and to dogs) ,this deserving lady(Andrea Parisy) climbs the social scale quickly and becomes a baroness , soon to be widowed ,for her husband could be her grandpa. Her desirable mansion is burglarized ; the thief (Jean Lefèvre) is arrested ,but it's impossible to find one of the stolen goods : the lantern .It works pretty well as a travesty of a trial ,but the ending is botched .3)The Bons Vivants :how an athletic club turns into a private brothel ; one of the members (Louis De Funès)takes in a would be mistreated hooker (Mireille Darc) ;she becomes his servant ,soon to be joined by other ones (including Bernadette Laffont) Best moments: A clueless De Funès,reading his interminable speech ,while his partners have only eyes for the servants ; and a very special Christmas .Everyone hams it up in this story which must not be taken seriously ;just for fun!
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Reviewed by philjeudy 7 / 10

Comedy in the pure tradition of the 60s

"Les bons vivants" is not known as much as "La grande vadrouille" or "Les tontons flingueurs" but it has the same ingredients with great actors like De Funes, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Francis Blanche with a story that has this very French rascal twitch.

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