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C'est pas moi, c'est l'autre
1962 Comedy
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Summary
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...
Review
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... |
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