You get a sense not only of Philipe's professional training, which clearly honed his skills in choreography and movement, but also of his natural charms. That the actor performs so effortlessly, so casually, is the real magic here.
Fan-Fan the Tulip
1952 · 1h 42m · NOT RATED
Adventure, Comedy, Romance, War
Directed by
Christian-Jaque
Overview
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.
Director and cast
- Christian-Jaque Director
- Gérard Philipe as Fanfan la Tulipe
- Gina Lollobrigida as Adeline
- Marcel Herrand as Louis XV
- Olivier Hussenot as Tranche-Montagne
- Noël Roquevert as Fier-à-Bras
- Geneviève Page as La marquise de Pompadour
- Sylvie Pelayo as Henriette de France
- Henri Rollan as Maréchal d'Estrées
- Nerio Bernardi as La Franchise
- Jean-Marc Tennberg as Lebel
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Starring the go-to couple of Gerard Philipe and Gina Lollobrigida, it features duels, chases and low-cut costumes, all in glorious black and white.
Enjoyable but undeniably creaky; what played as glorious period tomfoolery to European festival juries and discerning U S audiences in the early 1950s now just seems quaintly pleased with itself.
Christian-Jaque gets a bouquet for his effort, even though it's just this side of being complete.
Cahiers-savvy cinephiles will recognize Fanfan as the type of handsome prestige production that the French New Wave overthrew in the early '60s, but this example of the 'cinema de qualite' is hardly a musty artifact.
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