Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
- magic
- fairy tale
- royalty
- impossible love
- visual poetry
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean Martin
L’oiseau (voice)
Renaud Marx
Le ramoneur (voice)
Agnès Viala
La bergère (voice)
Pascal Mazzotti
Le roi (voice)
- Albert Médina — Le belluaire / Le haut hurleur (voice)
- Philippe Derrez — Le liftier / Le speaker (voice)
- Raymond Bussières — Le chef de la police (voice)
- Roger Blin — L’aveugle (voice)
- Claude Piéplu — Le maire du palais (voice)
- Hubert Deschamps — Le sentencieux (voice)
- Jeanne Witta — (Voice)
- Jacques Colombat — (Voice)
- Jean Vimenet — (Voice)
- Lionel Charpy — (Voice)
- Robert Lombard — (Voice)
- Directed
- Paul Grimault
- Written
- Paul Grimault, Jacques Prévert
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 422 ratings
- Studio
- Les Films Paul Grimault, Les Films Gibé, Antenne 2
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.
