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Overview
L’Impossible Monsieur Pipelet is a French film comedy first released in 1955,
directed by André Hunebelle.
The film stars Michel Simon, Etchika Choureau, Mischa Auer, Maurice Baquet and Jean Brochard.
It has also been released under the title: The Impossible Mr. Pipelet.
Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.
Synopsis
Maurice and Germaine Martin are a contented middle-aged couple who work
as concierges in an upmarket Parisian apartment block. Their
daughter Jacqueline, an aspiring academic, is in love with
Georges Richet, the son of their upper-crust employer. Martin is
as displeased with his daughter’s choice of future husband as Richet
Senior, so the young couple make up their mind to elope...
Film Review
L’Impossible Monsieur Pipelet
is one of those lacklustre sitcom-style films of the 1950s which,
whilst quite popular in their day, now appear hopelessly dated and
humourless. It says something about the quality of the
screenwriting and direction that even the incomparable pairing of
Michel Simon with Louis de Funès (the former a faded star, the
latter a virtual unknown at the time) cannot elevate this film above
the level of tedious mediocrity. The set-piece gags (involving
hosepipes and boxing rings) are as dated as cinema itself and extort
laughs from an unsuspecting audience as painlessly as a dentist
extracting teeth without an anaesthetic, whilst the plot, a feeble
attempt at social satire, leaves everything to be desired. The
only reason to watch the film is to savour the few moderately amusing
scenes in which De Funès does his best to prove this is meant to
be a comedy and not a soporific for masochists. Mercifully,
director André Hunebelle’s later collaborations with the comedy
genius - including the Fantômas comedies of the
1960s - would be somewhat less painful to sit through.
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