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Fantastic!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve star in The April Fools about a pair who on one irresistible fall in love and decide to go off to Paris. The problem is that they're married to different people.In Lemmon's case it's his boss's wife, his brand new boss Peter Lawford who is a free swinging hedonist who likes to throw parties at his Manhattan townhouse. It's there that Lemmon spots Catherine Deneuve looking quite bored at it all and he's struck by her beauty. The two go off where an older couple played by Myrna Loy and Charles Boyer kind of play matchmaker.Lemmon is married to Sally Kellerman who has an expensive hobby, redecorating homes, her homes. And once she completes a project she gets Lemmon to sell. Gives new meaning to the term housewife. It's Lemmon who has to foot the bills for her because she doesn't work. And in Craig's wife we know about people who value their living space over all.In the Citadel Film series book on the films of Myrna Loy she mentions that a lot of her footage with Charles Boyer was cut out. The two old timers stand out certainly and I wish there was more of them.Jack Weston and Harvey Korman play a couple of fellow Connecticut commuters and they do have a memorable journey back home when they miss their stop and decide to get plastered along with Lemmon.The April Fools has its moments but it's not the best of Jack Lemmon's comedies and won't make a top ten list for him.

My all-time favourite movie. Great Story, well filmed, superb cast, and captured the artificial attitudes of the 1960's perfectly.Jack Lemmon played the part of Howard Brubaker and, as always expected of Jack, he was great.Catherine Deneuve proved that her natural beauty is not just skin deep and who would have thought that She and Jack Lemmon would be such a resounding success together.Peter Lawford played Peter Lawford, as usual, very well and, was perfectly cast for the role of Gunther.Supporting cast were great and, since this early appearance of Kenneth Mars, why have we not seen more of him?

Critics often get it wrong and this movie is proof of that. If you watch this movie in the cold and analytical way that critics often do you will see its countless flaws. But if you do this you will also miss its warmth,charm the masterly performances of its cast and a super sixties Bacharach theme song. I urge people to see it and make up their own mind. My guess is you won't fail to be touched.

I saw this film years and years ago, but was listening to a "best of"CD the other day and heard Dionne Warwick singing the title tuneof "The April Fools" - I remembered how much I loved this film. Thetruth to the performances of Jack Lemmon and CatherineDeneuvre, along with great performances from Peter Lawford andSally Kellerman, makes this film a classic of the late sixties in thevein of Breakfast At Tiffanys. There is something pure, hauntingand deeply bittersweet about this movie - well worth a viewing.