A 1936 French farce where everyone's pretending to be someone else and somehow TWO weddings happen.
On one side, a crooked banker, his nephew and his orderly; on the other, the honest friend of the banker and his daughter. Substitution of male and female characters that end with two marriages.
Acting
Physical comedy timing that predates screwball Hollywood.
Costume
1930s French bourgeois fashion on full chaotic display.
Director
Maurice Kéroul
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This pre-occupation French farce captures a society on the brink of collapse, laughing at itself. Released months before the Popular Front government, its class satire hit different.
Director Maurice Kéroul was primarily a theatre director—explaining the door-slamming, set-bound energy that feels like a filmed stage play.
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