Le Magnifique [DVD]

This my favorite movie of all times.This comedy has it all.Actually, it's more than comedy.It's a spoof of the James f%$&#g Bond spy movies.It's a story of "real" life and even love.Show it to a teenager and he will enjoy its action.Show it to a pacifist and he will applaud its mockery of action movies and their primitive plots.I don't want to spill beans and kill all the movie's greatness.All I can say, everybody who watched it on my advice, from Rhodes scholars to us - average Joes, loved it (maybe for all different reasons :).A word of caution although - no matter what happens at the beginning do not turn it off (didn't I mention it's extraordinary).Jean-Paul Belmondo is LE MAGNIFIQUE.I watched a lot, maybe even most of his movies.His carrier span over decades.Not all of his movies are great but he gave them all his great talent and made them better just being there.Enjoy Le Magnifique - the movie and the actor.Do yourself a BIG favor - don't read other reviews.People try to build up your interest by giving away too much of a plot.Would you want to enjoy full power of the movie or just survive through it?If you are not going to try to find some other movies by JP Belmondo, I will eat my hat.Just call me :)

Bob St Clair, espion extraordinaire - James Bond with a French twist - is our hero, flexing his muscles with a modest, self-satisfied smile as he and the beautiful Tatiana fend off the villains, until......as he guns down another bunch of baddies on a Rio beach, a maid comes through the action, pushing a vacuum in her carpet-slippers - and we're back to real life, where Francois Merlin is hammering out the story on a crocked old typewriter.Both Merlin and St Clair are played by Jean-Paul Belmondo - but as Merlin he's unshaven, unwashed, in rumpled grey clothes, a Gauloise dangling out of the corner of his mouth. As Bob St Clair he's tanned, glossy, a lady-killer.Everything's going wrong for poor Merlin: the plumbing in his grotty flat has given up; he has a mad fancy for the unnoticing Christine, the gorgeous student upstairs (Jacqueline Bisset, who also plays the mysterious Tatiana, besotted by Bob St Clair); his publisher is a bully.And the disasters of real life infect his story. His typewriter's 'e' key breaks, and the characters lisp their dialogue without it. His publisher becomes the bumbling supervillain...Very funny, and this Region 1 version is the only one with English subtitles. Every writer should see this film.

It is a bonafide burlesque of super spy novels. Duality at work, down on his luck author and his alter ego breaking the fourth and 'fifth' walls on a whim and a prayer, beguiling audience with tonge-in-cheek social commentary, leaving no cliche-rock unturned in this madcap landscape of 007 meets Austin Powers as a figment of imagination on acid. It is a celebration of human spirit that goes beyond the cinematic and into the elusive land of the metaphysical, a divine comedy that renders all other genres of its type obsolete. It is La Magnifique. For once I am out of words. . . as long as the DVD is there idling on our shelf for posterity, humanity has a chance. Now pur your iphone on mute, put out a 'Do not disturb' sign on a door knob, make yourself a cup of Mocha cup of coffee, curl up on a sofa, turn off the lights and press play. Get ready to be trancended.

I ran into this movie on late night television and not having seen the very beginning was following it diligently, sucked up in the absurd torrent of action, when suddenly a maid was coming across the beach with a vacuum cleaner during a battle. Though this doesn't pretend to the gravitas of a Bunuel, taken in the right way it's every bit as surreal and liberating. It weaves in and out of simple frames of interpretation. Just when you think it's a tad too simplistic, it turns around and puts out another layer of interpretation only to then lampoon it. Jacqueline Bisset and Belmondo are both amazing. Watch this in the right state of mind, open to its playful silliness. Would make a good double bill with 'The Stunt Man'; both are surreal, philosophical explorations of action and its relationship to existence.

Can't get enough of it. I think I've watched it a half dozen times and I laugh hard every time.. Bisset is so incredibly beautiful, her and Belmondo play their characters so well and the story is so funny!Was really glad to find it on Amazon.

This is one of most hilarious spy spoofs ever, complete with a dashing Jean- Paul Belmondo and a ravishing Jackie Bisset.It is quite gory at times, but it is all tongue in cheek.Keep your eyes peeled for the University of Oregon tee shirt Bisset is wearing.Where did that come from in a French language 1970's spy spoof?

One of the best movies with one of the greatest and most diverse modern actors. An excellent mockery of the Hollywood super-heroes-spies-James-Bonds movies, and a touching story of a poor and talented writer and his love

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確かに珠玉の名作、とまでは言えないスラップスティックコメディではあるのですが、ベルモンド氏もビセット嬢も魅力に溢れ、底抜けに楽しい映画です。「オースチン・パワーズ」を観る感覚で楽しんで頂ければ幸い。TV放送での印象が強烈でどうにか日本語吹き替え版の復刻を祈るや切。

フランス語だが、英語の字幕表示も出来る。ベルモンドとビセットのコメディタッチの傑作ラブストーリー。内容は星５個だが、盤面が傷だらけだったのでマイナス１。 ただし、視聴には影響無しでした。