Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
- surrealism
- gynecologist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Paul Dufour
Jean Rochefort
Albert
Brigitte Fossey
Suzanne Dufour
Bernard Blier
Father Émile
- Claude Piéplu — A Guerrilla
- Gérard Jugnot — A Follower
- Sylvie Joly — The Head Doctor
- Dominique Lavanant — The Myopic Woman
- Claudine Beccarie — The Gynecologist's Patient
- Pierre Bertin — The Canon
- Dora Doll — Simone, Captain of the Soldiers
- Micheline Kahn — Geneviève
- Michel Peyrelon — A Guerrilla
- Marthe Villalonga — An Employee
- Liliane Rovère — A Female Soldier
- Directed
- Bertrand Blier
- Written
- Bertrand Blier, Philippe Dumarçay
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 141 ratings
- Studio
- AMLF, Les Films Christian Fechner, Renn Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
