Dragées au poivre (1963)
Directed by Jacques Baratier

Comedy
aka: Sweet and Sour

Film Synopsis

Gérard is a tennis player of no mean talent - he has just beaten the top seeded Frenchman - but his real passion in life is cinema.  With a group of like-minded film fanatics, he sets out to make a cinéma vérité film, armed with his hidden microphone, a camera mounted on his shoulder, and miles of film.  A school for strip-tease artistes, German tourists, a prostitute, a legionnaire... these are just a few of the subjects that the budding filmmaker includes in his masterpiece.  When his film proves to be a great success, Gérard instantly becomes famous.  With his girlfriend, he sets out for Hollywood where a great role awaits him, that of Voltaire...
© James Travers
The above content is owned by frenchfilms.org and must not be copied.


Film Credits


The silent era of French cinema
sb-img-13
Before the advent of sound France was a world leader in cinema. Find out more about this overlooked era.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
sb-img-5
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
The best French war films ever made
sb-img-6
For a nation that was badly scarred by both World Wars, is it so surprising that some of the most profound and poignant war films were made in France?
The very best of Italian cinema
sb-img-23
Fellini, Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, Pasolini... who can resist the intoxicating charm of Italian cinema?
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
sb-img-30
Whilst the horror genre is under-represented in French cinema, there are still a fair number of weird and wonderful forays into the realms of fantasy.
 

Other things to look at


Copyright © frenchfilms.org 1998-2024
All rights reserved



All content on this page is protected by copyright