On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes

1971
1h 17m

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On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes (1971)

This French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have taken over a post office, totally evacuatin... Read allThis French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have taken over a post office, totally evacuating the building. Or so they think. They missed Gertie Gertel, who was in the bathroom at th... Read allThis French farce/drama takes place in Ireland in 1916, during one of the peak periods of revolutionary violence. Seven Irish revolutionaries have taken over a post office, totally evacuating the building. Or so they think. They missed Gertie Gertel, who was in the bathroom at the time. By the time she is discovered, they are sufficiently besieged that for her own saf... Read all

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The very very low IMDb rating (1.2 at my time of writing) which this dud got is perfectly justified.Misogyny runs rampant all along this sinister farce.I've not read Raymond Queneau's novel (which he wrote under the "Sally Mara" pseud" )but French critics all agree to say the writer was betrayed.

In Dublin,during the 1916 revolution;historical background has been quickly dropped in favour of blue jokes,vulgar bawdy stories (the "butterfly" scene takes the biscuit).So bad that Elisabeth Wiener's career which was promising ("la Prisonnière " by HG Clouzot,1968)sank without a trace after this disaster.

Only the score (written by Claude Bolling,probably inspired by Irish folksong) is not bad.