Vivement dimanche! (1983)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

François Truffaut

Escritores:

Charles Williams (novel) and
François Truffaut (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 agosto 1983 (France)

Género:

Comedia | Crimen | Misterio | Suspenso

Plot:

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that...

Plot Keywords:

Secretary | Jealousy | Office | Ex Husband | Amateur Theater

Premios:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A shaggy dog running like a greyhound

Reparto

Fanny Ardant	...	Barbara Becker
Jean-Louis Trintignant	...	Julien Vercel
Jean-Pierre Kalfon	...	Massoulier (the priest)
Philippe Laudenbach	...	Maitre Clement
Philippe Morier-Genoud	...	Supt. Santelli
Xavier Saint-Macary	...	Bertrand Fabre
Jean-Louis Richard	...	Louison
Caroline Sihol	...	Marie-Christine Vercel
Castel Casti
Anik Belaubre	...	Paule Delbecq
Yann Dedet	...	Angel Face
Nicole Félix	...	The scarfaced whore
Georges Koulouris	...	Lablache
Pascale Pellegrin	...	Secretarial candidate
Roland Thénot	...	Jambreau

También conocida como:

Confidentially Yours (Australia) (USA)
Finally, Sunday
Confidencialmente tuya (Argentina) [es]
Vivamente el domingo (Spain) [es]

Duración:

110 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

France:U | Australia:PG | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Hyères, Var, France

Compañía:

Films A2

Trivialidades:

François Truffaut's final film and a tribute to Alfred Hitchcock. Truffaut was an expert on Hitchcock and a great admirer of his work throughout his career.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: When the corpse is wheeled out of Vercel's residence, its eyes noticeably open and move.

Citas:

Barbara Becker: It's really unfair. If a boss can fire me, why can't I fire him?

Conexiones de Película:

References Paths of Glory (1957)

A shaggy dog running like a greyhound

Confidentially Yours aka Vivement Dimanche is a spoof/tribute to noir/detective/Hitchcock films. Someone (it won't take you long to figure out who) commits a brutal murder and the police suspect Jean Louis Trintignant ( a real estate agent) but his secretary (a girl Friday he has just fired, perfectly played by Fanny Ardant--whose movie this is) investigates (dressed in a trench coat -- why she must wear a trench coat is one of the gags), determined to clear him.

It is a shaggy dog because it piles on the clues, close scrapes, crimes, etc. at ten times the rate of the films it salutes. It is a greyhound because it must get all that into 110 minutes, which it does with zest and comic theatricality (referenced of course by the subplot of a comic theatrical performance being given by Ardant's amateur theater group).

As film making it would have been a lot fresher if it had been made in 1964 rather than 1984, but that should not effect your viewing experience of an expertly made madcap mystery. I would have preferred the film in color. I know why it is in black and white, but it does not seem to me to have any particular aesthetic merit as a black and white film. While no masterpiece, it was perhaps not a bad way to end a directorial career with a loving look back to all those great mysteries and screwball comedies of yore.