Monsieur

Name: Monsieur
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1964-04-22
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Mireille Darc

1964
1h 45m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Liselotte Pulver, Mireille Darc, and Jean Gabin in Monsieur (1964)

Comedy

Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from his former maid that his wife was unfaithful he fakes his own death and comes ba... Read allLeft heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from his former maid that his wife was unfaithful he fakes his own death and comes back under a new identityLeft heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he learns from his former maid that his wife was unfaithful he fakes his own death and comes back under a new identity

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

374

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Final film of Gaby Morlay.

Connections
Referenced in Mireille Darc, la femme libre (2018)

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Featured review

6/10

Gabin

His wife having died in an auto accident, banker Jean Gabin is is on his way to throw himself into the Seine, when he meets his former housemaid, Mireille Darc, who informs him that he was multiply cuckolded. Eventually the two of them wind up as butler father and maid daughter in a rich, provincial household, while his nasty in-laws try to prove him dead so they can inherit.

It's pretty much standard bedroom farce of the classes, from a play by Claude Gével , with the film directed by financially successful Communist director Jean Paul Le Chanois. It's all very amusing, but as you might expect, it's all carried on the shoulders of Gabin, who shifts gears from banker to criminal mastermind to impeccable butler without missing a breath, even though his dinner may burn on the kitchen stove. As good farce should be, it's directed for speed. You've seen its like a dozen times and you may be pretty bored, but Gabin is one of those performers who can read the phone book and I'll applaud.