...Sans laisser d'adresse (1951)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Writers:

Alex Joffé (screenplay) &
Jean-Paul Le Chanois (dialogue)

Release Date:

17 January 1951 (France)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Thérèse Ravenaz is a charming young woman but also the victim of a seducer who abandoned her as soon as he was told she was expecting a baby...

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Bernard Blier	...	Émile Gauthier
Danièle Delorme	...	Thérèse Ravenaz
Pierre Trabaud	...	Gaston
Arlette Marchal	...	Madame Forestier
Pierre Mondy	...	L'ami de Forestier
Juliette Gréco	...	La chanteuse
Paul Villé	...	Victor, le chauffer pas d'accord
Yvette Etiévant	...	Adrienne Gauthier, la femme d'Émile
Sophie Leclair	...	Raymonde, la petite amie de Gaston
Gérard Oury	...	Un journaliste aigri
France Roche	...	Catherine
Julien Carette	...	Le tapissier (as Carette)
Colette Régis	...	La cliente en bagarre
Sylvain	...	Le client en bagarre
Christian Lude	...	Marcel Forestier, le dentiste

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Boulevard de la Chapelle, Paris 18, Paris, France

Company:

Les Films Raoul Ploquin

Trivia:

Award: Prix Fémina du Cinéma.

Taxi 0 or Looking for Mister Forestier

This is par excellence the kind of film which it's trendy to put disparagement on.This is par excellence the kind of film the new wavelet buffs laugh at .This is par excellence the kind of movie the educated clever people,those who know Rivette,Godard and Rohmer by heart, love to put down.(with notable exceptions of course).

Jean-Paul Le Chanois was a generous director whose humanism ,philanthropism and social concerns cannot be called into question."Sans Laisser d'Adresse" is just that: love for the human being,sympathy for the feeble.Once I wrote a comment on another Le Chanois's film "le Cas Du Docteur Laurent" .I got disastrous feedback.

Bernard Blier -as good as ever- portrays a taxi driver whose passenger, Thérèse (a moving Daniele Delorme) is looking for mister Forrestier.However this man seems nowhere to be found;so Le Chanois takes us on a tour in Paris,from an union meeting to a dentist's office ,from a paper (office) to a club in Saint-Germain-des-Prés where a young Juliette Gréco sings "la Fiancée du Prestidigitateur" (the conjurer's fiancée).And after a while we realize the man the girl's looking for is none other than a married lady killer and that she's a baby with her ,a baby whose father....

This is popular nay populist cinema in the noblest sense of the term.The screenplay involves many many characters (as Le Chanois' s previous work "Agence Matrimoniale" did),and it's a wonder one remembers most of them after the screening for most of them's appearance does not exceed three or four minutes.

Some say the Nouvelle Vague changed all this "obsolete" art.But Julien Duvivier had already trampled his generation's principles underfoot : in "Sous le Ciel de Paris" ,the year before,he had destroyed the young-girl-coming-from-the-Provinces cliché ;and with his 1952 masterpiece "la Fete à Henriette" ,he would definitively call into question what the highbrows called the "Cinema de Papa".

That said,I watched "Sans Laisser d'Adresse" with a great pleasure.

This is the kind of movie the so-called connoisseurs of the French cinema would not even think of seeing.Don't be like them!