ANTOINE ET ANTOINETTE

Antoine et Antoinette is a French film realized by Jacques Becker, release in 1947.

Personal comments : Louis de Funès is not marked in the credits, but he appears in the film in Emile's role, boy of the grocer at 10 minutes and 58 seconds after the beginning of the film and he says : '' Il y a plus rien ''.

He also appears in the role of a guest to the wedding at 1 hour, 11 minutes and 8 seconds after the beginning of the film but he says nothing, he makes that to applaud.

♦ Synopsis :

The film begins one Friday evening then that Antoine (Roger Pigaut), workman in a printing works and Antoinette (Claire Mafféï), employed in Prisunic of the Fields-Elysées, are on the point of leaving their work to join their residence. Antoinette is tempting and sudden assiduities of a not very scrupulous grocer (Noël Roquevert). The couple, in prey with the difficulties of the material life, in its shortly after war, disputes for trifles and is reconciled on the pillow. Antoine discovers that the lottery ticket bought by Antoinette is gaining; it will be able finally to carry out his dreams and to buy a motorcycle combination. Are followed from there some bounces, ticket lost and found, corrections inflicted with the grocer, walk in the boat on the lake of the wood of Boulogne, match of Foot to the Park of the Princes, and couples it with final, installed on the motorcycle combination moves away on the road.

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The film rewarded by the gold 1947 palm for the Festival for Cannes, however did not achieve the unanimity. Roger Boussinot, journalist with Action, reproached Becker for having described a couple of workman whose simple ideals were to clear up the middle-class and wondered about the realism of the representation. Becker answered in the same newspaper, that it seemed to him on the contrary, that Antoine, was to have his union card, while it French screen, went on the spot, a printing works and the prisunic, to check the authenticity of description.

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