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Overview
On purge bébé is a French film comedy first released in 1931,
directed by Jean Renoir.
The film stars Marguerite Pierry, Jacques Louvigny, Michel Simon, Olga Valéry and Nicole Fernandez.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
Monsieur Follavoine, inventor of the world’s first unbreakable chamberpot, invites a senior
civil servant, Monsieur Chouilloux, to his house to sign a contract to sell his invention
to the army. At the same time, his wife, Julie Follavoine, is trying in vain to
purge their young son, Toto. In the ensuing confusion, Follavoine’s chamberpots
prove not to be as indestructible as he claims and Toto is not the only one who is in
for some unpleasant medicine...
Film Review
Jean Renoir’s most outrageous comedy, based on a stage play by Georges Feydeau, provides
ample material for its comic stars to prove their worth. Marguerite Pierry,
Jacques Louvigny and Michel Simon each provide a comic performance that surpasses genius,
whilst a then comparatively unknown actor Fernandel unleashes his talent on an unsuspecting
world. Although not as noteworthy as Renoir’s later films of the same decade, On
purge bébé is nonetheless a competently realised comic farce, showing
the director at his most joyously unrestrained. What links this film to Renoir’s
greater films is its carefree mockery of Bourgeois respectability, and seldom does the
French Bourgeoisie come in for more mockery than in this hilariously funny film, all in
the worst possible taste.
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