Les fêtes galantes

1965 [FRENCH]

Comedy / History / War

3
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 211 211

Plot summary

In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.

Director

René Clair Photo
René Clair

Top cast

Marie Dubois Photo
Marie Dubois as Divine - la actrice
Jean-Pierre Cassel Photo
Jean-Pierre Cassel as Jolicoeur
Cornel Vulpe Photo
Cornel Vulpe
Alfred Adam Photo
Alfred Adam as Le sergent Bel-Oeil
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846.63 MB
1280*772
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr   es   ro  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
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1.53 GB
1792*1080
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   fr   es   ro  
24 fps
1 hr 32 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Vincentiu

old fashion

a charming story. mark of Rene Claire. and result of cooperation between Romanian and French cinema. the XVII century. siege of a fortress. a smart guy. a love story. and a lot of amusing gangs, errors, scenes, all in sweet sauce of happy end. a nice work. for the acting, for the brilliant Jean - Pierre Cassel, for delicate dust of subject and film. and, sure, for fight scenes who remembers romantic confrontations and commedia dell arte, Goldoni and the precise small gem of master Clair. it has all French flavor and the virtue is, in great measure, of Roumanian part. demonstration of Comunist regime form of freedom for art, it remains a lovely movie, far from policy dusty influence. naive, ironic, nice, it is a trip in past. and demonstration of special sensitivity.
Reviewed by ulicknormanowen 7 / 10

La guerre en dentelles.

René Clair was the first (and to this date only) director inducted in the Académie française (founded by the Cardinal de Richelieu ,their main aim is to produce a definitive dictionary of the French language -a variant of the Sisyphus myth-).Although he had still sixteen years to live,and although he was spared by the NV attacks , "les fêtes galantes" (which is a misnomer for it's essentially the story of an interminable siege) is his final effort, a "tragico-comedy " as he calls it ;its main problem is his screenplay : it has not the firmness of his other post-war works such as "le silence est d'or" or "la beauté du diable" ;however it's a vast improvement on "porte des lilas " which was an obsolete return to the old realisme poétique .It's a desultory sprawling comedy,with fine moments and beautiful pictures , but which does not really makes it as a whole. Fortunately ,the cast is attractive : Jean-Pierre Cassel as "Joli-Coeur " who hypocritically prevents his soldiers from raping the peasants ,but who tries his luck (an unfortunately ,the victim is a princess in disguise) ; Philippe Avron ,as the peasant who will never gets his money for his pig ,but is made a soldier on both sides and does not succeed as a deserter ; Jean Richard as the besieger who stuffs himself with fine food when his enemy has only herrings in his besieged castle (and the menu is announced by loudspeaker,an anachronism which Sacha Guitry would not disown ). Plus a fine female cast,with Genevieve Casile,de la comedie française ,and the luminous Marie Dubois as the queen of the stage .Sacha Guitry ,had he been still alive, would have loved the prologue and the epilogue, based on a painting where there's more to the picture than meets the eye and which spawns the whole movie.
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