Boudu (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.4/10   

Director:

Gérard Jugnot

Escritores:

René Fauchois (play)
Philippe Lopes-Curval (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 marzo 2005 (Belgium)

Género:

Comedia

Plot Keywords:

Suicide Attempt | Rescue From Drowning | Psychatrist | Art Gallery | Based On Play

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Enjoyable but tiresome

Reparto

Gérard Depardieu	...	Boudu
Gérard Jugnot	...	Christian
Catherine Frot	...	Yseult
Constance Dollé	...	Coralie
Bonnafet Tarbouriech	...	Perez
Hubert Saint-Macary	...	Bob
Dominique Ratonnat	...	Le médecin
Jean-Paul Rouve	...	Hubert
Serge Riaboukine	...	Géronimo
Jean-Pierre Foucault	...	Himself
Frédéric Restagno	...	Pompier 1
Marc Pistolesi	...	Pompier 2
Agnès Regolo	...	La mère de Coralie (as Agnès Régolo)
Didier Lafaye	...	Le père de Coralie
Philippe Du Janerand	...	L'amateur galerie

Duración:

France:104 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Finland:K-11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | France:U | Germany:6

Compañía:

GMT Productions

Trivialidades:

Visa d'exploitation en France : #110324

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones "Qui veut gagner des millions?" (2000)

Enjoyable but tiresome

This is a remake of Jean Renoir's Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932), which Paul Mazursky remade in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986).

I'm not sure why it had to be done again (a universal dearth of ideas possibly), but it's not a bad piece of fluff, an enjoyable waste of time. Its only real problem is its length: it just runs out steam. Jugnot and Depardieu are fun to watch for a while, but you just know their mutual fulminations and frustrations are going to wane; sure enough, it happens, at about the 75-minute mark. After that, it just goes downhill, and there just isn't any fun anymore.

Depardieu offers us yet another self-mocking caricature of Gerard Depardieu. I like him a lot -- it's somehow endearing to see this universally known actor fearlessly showing his bulbous belly and nude derriere to a worldwide audience. It's somehow very European, or maybe just French. I've always loved Catherine Frot, and her ditzy performance adds a lot to the silliness.

Good comedies are hard to find. One reason is that they can rarely sustain the comedy and the 'plot' convincingly over a feature length. This is the fate of this latest incarnation of Boudu.