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Bizarre Bizarre (Drole de Dame)

France, 1937, 87 mins, 16mm print
Directed by Marcel Carné
Cast: Michel Simon, Jean-Louis Barrault, Françoise Rosay


Dadaist frivolity, with sequences that one giggles over happily for years. Jacques Prévert wrote and Marcel Carné directed this romantic, satirical comedy about the English mania for detective fiction set in Edwardian England. Jean-Louis Barrault is the detective-story reader who decides to commit his own perfect crime by murdering the author (Michel Simon). With Françoise Rosay as Barrault's inamorata (he gathers a bouquet for her by stealing the boutonnieres of men who have been clobbered in the Limehouse alleys); Louis Jouvet as a clergyman; and Jean-Pierre Aumont as a lovesick milkman. Short to follow: more Starewicz Shorts

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