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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
| Release : | 1971 |
| Rating : | 5.6 |
| Studio : | Gaumont International, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Set Decoration, |
| Cast : | Michel Serrault Bernard Blier Paul Meurisse Marion Game Gérard Depardieu |
| Genre : | Comedy Crime |
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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
The title is surrealist:"the cry of the cormoran by night above the junks" ;in fact, both Bernard Blier and Paul Meurisse try to "imitate " it in the last five minutes.Before,the connection between the title and the plot escapes me,I fear...All that remains is a dreadful hodgepodge ,a story of gangsters which defies the imagination,so to speak..Michel Audiard told it so: as many stupidities in an incoherent screenplay as you can put in an eighty-minute film.Michel Audiard can be a good screenwriter ,with plenty of hilarious lines (for instance,in Gilles Grangier's "Un Cave" (1961);but as a director,he is thoroughly incompetent :his actors are left to their own devices and are,most of the time ,unbearable (particularly Marion Game as a nymphomaniac in miniskirt);the cast is enticing but the movie is not.
