Le Million

Original title: Le million

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An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

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7.3/10

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Pauline Kael, the eminent film critic for The New Yorker, lavished praise on the film, calling it "René Clair at his exquisite best; no one else has ever been able to make a comedy move with such delicate, dreamlike inevitability [...] This movie is lyrical, choreographic, giddy--it's the best French musical of its period."

Quotes
Vanda: That girl seemed annoyed. Is she your girlfriend?
Michel Bouflette: No. No, she's a neighbor. She's a dancer. She's quite nice. But she didn't know I was doing your portrait. It surprised her.
Vanda: You're probably wooing her.
Michel Bouflette: No, no, no. Not at all. We're just sort of engaged.

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Featured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A francia lírai realizmus (1989)

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10/10

Thoroughly enjoyable

When two starving artists learn their lottery ticket has won, the race is on, but — where's the ticket? Although as of today, this film is 82 years old, it is still one of the most watchable and enjoyable films I've seen. It has a bit of everything, humor, pathos, screwball comedy, drama...you name it. In this madcap race to find a winning lottery ticket, you may be reminded of some of the scavenger hunt films or other films such as Million Dollar Mystery, or It's a Mad Mad World, but this one stands by itself. Half Tom and Jerry cartoon, half musical, a little opera, starving artists, sly criminals, beautiful women and a really beleaguered taxi driver...and all funny. Not to be missed.