Format: NTSC

Details: Amazon.ca Gérard Jugnot is Edmond Batignole, a Parisian butcher and caterer at the time of the German occupation. The "Gross Paris", with its Wehrmacht soldiers and their studded soles, its daughters and their contraband silk stockings, its fake resistance fighters, its real collaborators. All that, Batignole, he does not care a bit, as long as he manages to hold his small business. Until the day when he discovers that he hides, in spite of himself, Jewish children under his roof... Since we are touching on thorny subjects (collaboration, raids) and we are adding children to them, absolutely touching. And he succeeds, Jugnot (also a director), not without using a lot of "big" tricks: the very complacent wife towards the occupier, the resourceful and wonderfully intelligent kids, the bitter and nasty French people (including Jean- Paul Rouve, in a molasse version of Brasillach)... We even see Sacha Guitry pass by, the time to humiliate a plumitif of I am everywhere, a way of making people forget that the lifestyle of the social dramatist under the Occupation earned him when even a few disputes in 1945! Even if, obviously, we are far from the sublime La Traversée de Paris by Claude Autant-Lara, Gérard Jugnot, actor and director, manages to make a unifying and worthy comedy on the subject; in the mood of time. Not everyone is necessarily nice, but not necessarily bad either. And life goes on... --Jean-Pascal Grosso

UPC: 773933174123

EAN: 0773933174123

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood