Ils sont grands ces petits

1979 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy

IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 218 218

Director

Joël Santoni Photo
Joël Santoni

Top cast

Catherine Deneuve Photo
Catherine Deneuve as Louise Mouchin
Fernand Guiot Photo
Fernand Guiot as L'inspecteur Bugeaud
Norbert Saada Photo
Norbert Saada as Saada
Mustapha Dali Photo
Mustapha Dali as L'émir
720p.BLU
863.97 MB
1200*720
French 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

Robotics and robbery.

Joel Santoni begins his career with a movie which deserves to be rediscovered :"Les Yeux Fermés " (=with eyes closed) dealt with a blind man's ordeals in a cruel world;after a documentary about a cycler champion ;things begins to deteriorate beyond that point :"Les Yeux Brouillés" exploited a French President's fancy for scrambled eggs but got unanimous thumbs down ."Ils Sont Grands Ces Petits " hits rock bottom,despite an intriguing prologue ,with an excellent scene :scientist Yves Robert asks his daughter to go to bed :she demands a bedtime story ,and he reads her an extract from a calculus book dealing with sine curves and parameters.This is the story of the aforementioned girl,Louise , who grew up to be a scientist herself and of her childhood friend ,Léo ,who enjoys scale models ;a nasty estate developer who has a luxury apartment block ,"La Traviata " in mind wants to throw them out of their property .The eventful screenplay includes a new way of holding up banks , a robot ,Manfred ,closer to Roby from "foridden planet" than to those of "star wars" , the obligatory wealthy emirs -a recurrent theme of the French cinema of the late seventies/early eighties,-Catherine Deneuve is by no means a comic actress ;both she and Claude Brasseur must have considered this dud a potboiler.Claude Piéplu could be riotously funny when he was given good parts (Miller's "La Meilleure Façon De Marcher " and both films with Bunuel).Fortunately , Joel Santoni' s following effort "Mort Un Dimanche De Pluie" , was much better and is to be recommended;but not this one.
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