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1930 |
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MUSICAL
FOREIGN
COMEDY
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France |
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| Length: |
89 |
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Poor artist (Rene Lefevre) loses winning lottery ticket and scours Paris to find it.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Dated but delightful escapism which made Clair's international reputation. The musical numbers are beautifully integrated into the plot - which may not seem unusual now, but certainly was in 1930. The film's success proved influential on the course of the modern musical; and the chase sequence in the opera house was later imitated by the Marx Brothers in A Night At The Opera.
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"I wanted an atmosphere of foolishness... We put gauze between the actors and the sets, which created an illusion of unreality." |
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