A good example of how a movie can be utterly characteristic of its maker and still fall with a resounding thud...
Irma la Douce
A story of passion, bloodshed, desire and death... everything, in fact, that makes life worth living.
1963 · 2h 27m · Not Rated
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Billy Wilder
Overview
When a naive policeman falls in love with a prostitute, he doesn’t want her seeing other men and creates an alter ego who’s to be her only customer.
Director and cast
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Wilder's soft-centred cynicism provides frequent enough laughs without too many longueurs.
Mr. Lemmon is little short of brilliant...
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