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Antoine and Antoinette (French: Antoine et Antoinette) is a 1947 French comedy film directed by Jacques Becker. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert-Jules Garnier. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Antoine & Antoinette: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert, Gaston Modot. Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Jacques Becker
- 1947-09-27
In Paris, Antoinette (Claire Maffei) happily marries her boyfriend, Antoine Moulin (Roger Pigaut), even realizing that they are destined for a life of poverty.
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- Roger Pigaut
- Jacques Becker
- Romance, Comedy
Antoine and Antoinette. Photograph from Everett. The director Jacques Becker builds this snappy and hearty comic melodrama, from 1947, out of streetwise details, from the stress and the...
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From French auteur Jacques Becker comes the utterly charming farce Antoine and Antoinette. A working-class romance in the post-war, but also a bitter reflection on life and the (im)possibility of dreams, the film oscillates between Jean Renoir’s 1930s cinema and the upcoming New Wave.
May 18, 2024 · Antoine and Antoinette, Jacques Becker’s 1947 ode to the everyday life of working-class Parisians, opens amid the rhythmic, pounding machinery of a printing press. Antoine runs a machine that slices the edges off book blocks: we see the blades coming down and the white strips of paper falling away.
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The protagonists of Jacques Becker's Paris working-glass comedy is a young couple, the titular Antoine (Pigaut) and Antoinette (Mafféi), he works in a printing press and she in a department store, they don't have much savings and live in a frowzy apartment, but an exuberant sense of community permeates through their ordinary lives, and it is ...