Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

dbdumonteil A remake of his brother Marc's movie of the thirties which I have not seen,"Mam'Zelle Nitouche seemed to indicate that Yves Allégret,after making great movies in the 1947-1953 era,was a spent force .Even Fernandel was not able to save this dud ;the script is awful:the first half is a spate of clichés about mistaken identities (the earnest organist of the convent writes light operettas);the second is even worse,recalling the coarse comedies of the thirties ,with the obligatory funny trick of a female presence in the barracks .Louis De Funès appears (but you've got to be patient) as a sergeant .Pier Angeli ,the actress James Dean wanted to marry, is cast as the false ingénue.It was the first time Y.Allégret had experimented color,at a time when the French cinema was mostly black and white :pearls before swine.Word to the wise :take "Manèges" instead.