Jacques Demy had made the precedent year his brilliant "pied piper" ,the best version of the German legend I know.Commercially,it was a colossal flop.Demy returned to his native France and gave his favorite actress Catherine Deneuve one of her worst parts ever.She's cast as Mastroianni 's wife and he is pregnant by her:you read well!A false good idea.It could have been a feminist fable it's not much more than a painful farce.Micheline Presles,who was part of the cast of the marvelous "Peau d'Ane" ,appears as the local gynecologist.
Don't get fooled by the bombastic hyperbolic title ,which is one of the longest in the French cinema.This movie was the beginning of Demy 's long decline.Although he would occasionally come up with an estimable movie ("une chambre en ville" )he would never match the brilliance of his sixties best works.
Don't get fooled by the bombastic hyperbolic title ,which is one of the longest in the French cinema.This movie was the beginning of Demy 's long decline.Although he would occasionally come up with an estimable movie ("une chambre en ville" )he would never match the brilliance of his sixties best works.