L'ibis rouge (1975)
Country: FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Michel Simon, Evelyne Buyle, Jean Le Poulain
Synopsis:
On the Canal St Martin, a liqueur salesman struggles to clear a gambling debt with his estranged wife's family jewels, while a frustrated obsessive strangles women wearing a red scarf with an ibis and a green blow-fly pin. Meanwhile the wife's Greek restaurateur employer yearns for the imagined seaside cottage of the mythomaniac newspaper seller who just longs to be famous for something, even if it is strangling young women...
Review:
Cheerfully amoral and casually misanthropic, Mocky's black comedy is like a Leslie Phillips vehicle shot by Bertrand Blier. Endowed with one of those electro-musette 70s ear worms on the soundtrack, it sustains interest fleetingly thanks to its trio of experienced performers, but even they can do nothing with such a weak script, although technical credits are as high as usual.
Country: FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Michel Simon, Evelyne Buyle, Jean Le Poulain
Synopsis:
On the Canal St Martin, a liqueur salesman struggles to clear a gambling debt with his estranged wife's family jewels, while a frustrated obsessive strangles women wearing a red scarf with an ibis and a green blow-fly pin. Meanwhile the wife's Greek restaurateur employer yearns for the imagined seaside cottage of the mythomaniac newspaper seller who just longs to be famous for something, even if it is strangling young women...
Review:
Cheerfully amoral and casually misanthropic, Mocky's black comedy is like a Leslie Phillips vehicle shot by Bertrand Blier. Endowed with one of those electro-musette 70s ear worms on the soundtrack, it sustains interest fleetingly thanks to its trio of experienced performers, but even they can do nothing with such a weak script, although technical credits are as high as usual.
Country: FR
Technical: col 90m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Michel Simon, Evelyne Buyle, Jean Le Poulain
Synopsis:
On the Canal St Martin, a liqueur salesman struggles to clear a gambling debt with his estranged wife's family jewels, while a frustrated obsessive strangles women wearing a red scarf with an ibis and a green blow-fly pin. Meanwhile the wife's Greek restaurateur employer yearns for the imagined seaside cottage of the mythomaniac newspaper seller who just longs to be famous for something, even if it is strangling young women...
Review:
Cheerfully amoral and casually misanthropic, Mocky's black comedy is like a Leslie Phillips vehicle shot by Bertrand Blier. Endowed with one of those electro-musette 70s ear worms on the soundtrack, it sustains interest fleetingly thanks to its trio of experienced performers, but even they can do nothing with such a weak script, although technical credits are as high as usual.