GamerTab That was an excellent one.

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Console best movie i've ever seen.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

morrison-dylan-fan Having a bit of a rubbish week offline,I decided that I would cheer myself up by watching two Comedy films.A fan of him in Noir's,I felt it was the perfect time to see the comedic side of Lino Venture.View on the film:Playing up to his tough guy image,Lino Venture gives a fabulous performance as Milan,with Venture's strained, agitated facial expressions being those worthy of a Silent Comedy. Irritating all he comes into contact with, Jacques Brel takes care that this irritation of Pignon does not spread to the viewer, by giving Pignon a misplaced sincerity towards Milan,which causes all situations to go from bad to worse. Breaking his play out of the hotel room, the screenplay by Francis Veber finds hilarity in making Milan and Pignon absolute misfits, with the cold, hard glances of Pignon being smashed by the cliff-edge emotions of Milan.Gathering the duo in a hotel, Veber smartly spends the opening 30 minutes playing Milan's hit man and Pignon's depression straight, that gives the avalanche of trouble that comes after a feeling of Pignon and Milan having an inability to stop themselves from getting pulled into each other's troubles. Making the physical Comedy look impressively effortless, director Édouard Molinaro & cinematographer Raoul Coutard load up Milan's troubles with slick tracking shots and sped-up car racing that tracks every attempt Milan makes to free himself from the pain of Pignon.

RealLiveClaude This movie inspired the less successful "Buddy Buddy" which starred the Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon team. However, the original is better for many reasons here.Hit-man comes to Montpellier, France to recoup a failed assassination attempt of a witness about to tell all about the Mob. However, a depressed businessman who is about to lose his wife gets in the way, and trouble ensues...Great rendering by the late actor Lino Ventura (who did tough guys role throughout his career and had a fan base in Quebec, shot a couple of movies in Montreal...) and late poet/singer/actor Jacques Brel as the depressed Francois Pignon (who is a staple character to Francis Veber's many scripts, if we can remember "Le Diner De Cons" and other movies).Well written and real twists along the way. No matter this hit-man called this guy "annoying" (translated from the title in slang French: "L'Emmerdeur"). But this original still prevails from the failed remakes that followed (to all due respect to the original "Odd Couple" of Matthau and Lemmon).

Nicholas Rhodes One of the many great comedies from France from the 1970's, and a commodity which is seriously lacking nowadays in that country ! It is now available in France ( March 2007 ) on DVD, and please note that the DVD has English Subtitles if required. Ventura was a great actor and Brel, though hopeless as an actor, occupied a part which didn't need a great actor. Brel in this film can get on your nerves at time, just like Michael Crawford in "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" but despite this, the spectator has a good time ! The catchy, almost wailing, theme music by François Rauber (played on a whiny accordeon) is typical of many French films from the sixties and seventies and serves as a way of identifying the origin of the film. Given that now both the main protagonists of the film are dead, the sound of this accordéon is particularly nostalgic. The recipe of two character-opposed central characters is often a central tenet of French cinema ( Richard / Depardieu, Depardieu/Reno, De Funes/Carmet, De Funes/Bourvil ...... and Ventura/Brel in this film )and has been used with success to make generations of moviegoers laugh ! Francis Veber had a large had in this film although its director was Edouard Molinaro - is it any surprise then that one of the characters has the name François Pignon. Indeed, BREL is the ORIGINAL François Pignon. The character was subsequently interpreted by Pierre Richard, Jacques Villeret, Daniel Auteuil et alia ............

pierrealix This Movie came out in France after summer 73 and become quick one of the biggest hit ever in this country.. because it starred Lino ventura ,by far the most beloved french actor (although from Italian origin)in the funny character of a poor hitman who just cant do his job..people were delighted to see this tough guy annoyed by Jacques Brel although no one understood why he didnt strangle him at the third minute...But the incredibly bad acting by singer Brel makes this movie a never-ending bore. Strictly for Ventura Fans.