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Le Schpountz ★★ Heartbeat 1938. Satire on filmmaking and film-loving fans finds a small town grocer (Fernandel) in southern France becoming the victim of a practical joke when a visiting film crew promises to make him a star (signing him to a phony contract) if he'll come to Paris. Naturally, the joke's on them when the naive grocer arrives ...
Apr 1, 2011 · Pagnol’s satire—regarding the movie world he naïvely enters and the small-time merchant milieu he came from—is far-reaching and unsparing, yet tender; his sharp and hearty country wisdom ...
From March 1937, simultaneously with Le Schpountz, Les Films Marcel Pagnol launched with Fernandel for the 7 months of filming of “Regain”, based on the eponymous novel by Jean Giono published in 1930. The story supposed to take place on a plateau of Haute-Provence will be filmed on the heights of Allauch and Aubagne, in particular within false vestiges of…
Fernandel talks about his friend Pagnol with whom he made many films like Angèle, Regain, Topaz or Le Schpountz. He tells the story of a day of filming: "It was not cinema that we made.
This one is about a "schpountz" (Scorsese would say a schmuck) who dreams about being a movie star (a still relevant theme ...) and is submitted to a hoax by a film crew. In a movie by someone else than Pagnol, it would be a pure farce, but here it is at the same time a very funny comedy, and a very deep and moving reflection on cinema ... and us, people.
Synopsis. Baptiste Fabre runs a small grocery in a village near Marseille. He has raised not only his son Casimir, but also his nephew Irénée. Whereas Casimir has his feet on the ground and will make a good businessman, Irénée is whimsical and shows little aptitude for the grocer's trade. He loves the movies and is convinced he's a born ...
Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle’s grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irénée begins to go over the top in order to be noticed, which earns him the traditional joke reserved to a “Schpountz” (naive person): a phoney contract and a ...
