Les grandes manoeuvres (1955)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

René Clair

Escritores:

René Clair (screenplay) &
Jérôme Géronimi (adaptation) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

25 octubre 1955 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Milliner | Wager | Seduction | Truth | Courtship

Premios:

3 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Heartwrenching Romance with Comic Asides

Reparto

Michèle Morgan	...	Marie-Louise Rivière
Gérard Philipe	...	Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne
Jean Desailly	...	Victor Duverger
Pierre Dux	...	Le colonel
Jacques Fabbri	...	L'ordonnance d'Armand
Jacques François	...	Rodolphe
Yves Robert	...	Le lieutenant Félix Leroy
Brigitte Bardot	...	Lucie
Lise Delamare	...	Juliette Duverger
Jacqueline Maillan	...	Jeanne Duverger, une soeur de Victor
Magali Noël	...	Thérèse, la chanteuse (as Magali Noel)
Simone Valère	...	Gisèle Monnet (as Simone Valere)
Catherine Anouilh	...	Alice, la fille du préfet
Madeleine Barbulée	...	La dame au chapeau jaune
Dany Carrel	...	Rose-Mousse

También conocida como:

Grandi manovre (Italy)
Summer Manoeuvres (UK)
The Grand Maneuver (USA)
Las maniobras del amor (Spain) [es]

Duración:

106 min

País:

France | Italy

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

Finland:S | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Studios de Boulogne-Billancourt/SFP - 2 rue de Silly, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Compañía:

Filmsonor

Trivialidades:

Italian censorship visa #20434 delivered on 22 December 1955.

Heartwrenching Romance with Comic Asides

A French army regiment, resplendent in colorful uniform, is quartered in a French provincial town for summer exercises. As this detachment first enters the town marching in order down its main thoroughfare, a beautiful woman (Michele Morgan) appears on the balcony of her fashion shop and catches the eye of the regiment's dashing and handsome Lothario who has already compiled a notorious string of conquests (Gerard Philipe). This gives rise to a bet by his fellow soldiers with him, when the soldiers reach their barracks, that this time he will not be able to seduce this woman. He launches a spirited campaign for her, designed to sweep her off her feet, but becomes so ensnared in her charms that he completely loses his mind and falls genuinely and madly in love with her, forgetting totally about the bet and wanting only her. The high point of his fortunes is reached when, practically on bended knee, he protests to her that he does not love her for only a few days or a few weeks but for his whole life. She is on the point of yielding to his entreaties when she learns of the bet. The denouement is exquisite torture as she is unable to credit his protestations any longer notwithstanding that she passionately desires to, he is in effect impaled to his hurt on the thorns of his past, she ends by returning to the fat husband with greasy ringlets of curls from whom she'd been divorced and who appears totally unworthy of her, and the regiment marches out of town at the end of summer. There are comic interludes of great charm and even some hilarity, as well as all the brilliance and wit that make a French movie a French movie, but all in all this is a sentimentalist's dream of a production in which the adorable loveliness of Michele Morgan is at its dazzling height.