Trois hommes et un couffin (1985)
(Three Men and a Cradle)
Country: FR
Technical: col 106m
Director: Coline Serreau
Cast: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier
Synopsis:
Three occupants of a bachelor pad blithely pursue their promiscuous, hedonistic lifestyle until, that is, a former conquest of the best-looking, and best travelled member of the trio leaves an infant on the landing for them to take care of for a few months. An inevitably steep learning curve, and a brush with the police over some dope, give way to a growing bond between the surrogate fathers and their charge.
Review:
This flabby, raucous comedy was a runaway success in its native country, for which the antics of a male population still endowed with medieval codes of behaviour towards the fair sex were no doubt long overdue some kind of debunking. On that level the female characters come off pretty badly, in spite of a woman at the helm of the project: reduced to caricatures in their few incarnations, their avenger ultimately has to throw herself on the mercy of our new men, as she is unable to cope on her own. It seems cooperation is the best we could hope for, for the time being, from a country so full of reactionary attitudes! It's just a pity that the vehicle for this progressive message was a comedy so tired and witless, in which the spectacle of our three men shouting at each other and the occasional third party passes for bonhomie. Unaccountably, given the difference between the two countries, Serreau's film inspired not only an American remake but a sequel as well; she, meanwhile, went on to better things with La Crise.
(Three Men and a Cradle)
Country: FR
Technical: col 106m
Director: Coline Serreau
Cast: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier
Synopsis:
Three occupants of a bachelor pad blithely pursue their promiscuous, hedonistic lifestyle until, that is, a former conquest of the best-looking, and best travelled member of the trio leaves an infant on the landing for them to take care of for a few months. An inevitably steep learning curve, and a brush with the police over some dope, give way to a growing bond between the surrogate fathers and their charge.
Review:
This flabby, raucous comedy was a runaway success in its native country, for which the antics of a male population still endowed with medieval codes of behaviour towards the fair sex were no doubt long overdue some kind of debunking. On that level the female characters come off pretty badly, in spite of a woman at the helm of the project: reduced to caricatures in their few incarnations, their avenger ultimately has to throw herself on the mercy of our new men, as she is unable to cope on her own. It seems cooperation is the best we could hope for, for the time being, from a country so full of reactionary attitudes! It's just a pity that the vehicle for this progressive message was a comedy so tired and witless, in which the spectacle of our three men shouting at each other and the occasional third party passes for bonhomie. Unaccountably, given the difference between the two countries, Serreau's film inspired not only an American remake but a sequel as well; she, meanwhile, went on to better things with La Crise.
(Three Men and a Cradle)
Country: FR
Technical: col 106m
Director: Coline Serreau
Cast: Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier
Synopsis:
Three occupants of a bachelor pad blithely pursue their promiscuous, hedonistic lifestyle until, that is, a former conquest of the best-looking, and best travelled member of the trio leaves an infant on the landing for them to take care of for a few months. An inevitably steep learning curve, and a brush with the police over some dope, give way to a growing bond between the surrogate fathers and their charge.
Review:
This flabby, raucous comedy was a runaway success in its native country, for which the antics of a male population still endowed with medieval codes of behaviour towards the fair sex were no doubt long overdue some kind of debunking. On that level the female characters come off pretty badly, in spite of a woman at the helm of the project: reduced to caricatures in their few incarnations, their avenger ultimately has to throw herself on the mercy of our new men, as she is unable to cope on her own. It seems cooperation is the best we could hope for, for the time being, from a country so full of reactionary attitudes! It's just a pity that the vehicle for this progressive message was a comedy so tired and witless, in which the spectacle of our three men shouting at each other and the occasional third party passes for bonhomie. Unaccountably, given the difference between the two countries, Serreau's film inspired not only an American remake but a sequel as well; she, meanwhile, went on to better things with La Crise.