C’est pas moi, c’est l’autre is a French film comedy first released in 1962, directed by Jean Boyer.  The film stars Fernand Raynaud, Jean Poiret, Micheline Dax, Geneviève Kervine and Fred Pasquali.  Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.


Jean Duroc is the manager of a down at heel music hall troupe that is getting used to playing to empty theatres.  Duroc is on the point of giving up when he comes across Antoine Gaspard, a shy civil servant who is the exact likeness of the celebrated comedian Fernand Raynaud.   Reluctantly, Gaspard agrees to join Duroc’s troupe, in spite of the fact that he has no obvious talent as a performer...

On the face of it, C’est pas moi, c’est l’autre seems to be a bizarre exercise in self-parody – a lacklustre comedy which ropes in the popular humourist Fernand Raynaud in the hope that this will be enough to attract a large audience.  Without Raynaud’s spirited contribution, the film would be a tedious, rather silly farce, typical of the kind of low brow comedy that entertained the masses in France in the late 1950s, early 1960s.  The value of this film is that it helps to preserve the memory of one of France’s most talented, most loved comic performers.   Fernand Raynaud appeared in several other films comedies, including La Bande à papa (1956)
and Auguste (1961).

© James Travers 2007

Write a review for this film...


What do you think of this film?

More French Comedy
Recent DVD releases