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Overview
La Table aux crevés is a French film comedy-drama first released in 1952,
directed by Henri Verneuil.
The film is based on a novel by Marcel Aymé and stars Fernandel, Maria Mauban, Andrex, Antonin Berval and René Génin.
It has also been released under the title: The Hunting Ground.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
Urbain Coindet returns to his farmhouse one day to find his wife hanging from the ceiling.
His in-laws reject the most plausible explanation, that the sad woman killed herself,
and instead spread the rumour that Urbain murdered her. Urbain doesn’t help matters
by immediately starting a romance with a young woman, Jeanne, whose brother has an intense
hatred for him. Before long, the entire village is divided into two camps, those
who are for Urbain and those who are against him...
Film Review
Having made a number of short films in the 1940s, Henri Verneuil began his film-making
career proper in 1951 with this, his first full-length film, adapted from a novel by Marcel
Aymé. The film stars the iconic comic actor Fernandel, who had appeared in
Verneuil’s earlier short film Escale au soleil
(1947). The two men – both major players in French cinema for many years – would
work together again over the following decade in another six films, all popular successes.
With its sunny provençal location, authentic characterisation of country folk and
poetic cinematographic style, La Table aux crevés
is reminiscent of the films of Marcel Pagnol, with which Fernandel is himself
closely associated.
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