The One Man Band (1970)

• Year: 1970
• Released: 18 Sep 1970
• Country: France, Italy
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065848/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_one_man_band
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• Available in: 720p,
• Language: French, English, Spanish, Italian
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Comedy, Musical
• Runtime: 85 min
• Writer: Jean Halain, Serge Korber, Géza von Radványi
• Director: Serge Korber
• Cast: Louis de Funès, Noëlle Adam, Olivier De Funès
• Keywords: rome, italy, pop, baby, monaco, ballet dancer, french riviera,

6.2/10

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fantastic funestastic – a classic

It’s obvious that if you’re looking for plausible plots in any of Funes’ movies aren’t the right place to look for. Especially his film is all about the incredible camera and lighting, staging and set design. About the beautiful girls dancing and wearing classic 60ies outfits. In fact it’s all about the dancing scenes. The idea having a conversation via singing is purely operatic, used to the extreme by Jacques Demy (Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and again in a different more Funesque way by Alain Resnais in On connaît la chanson!

The film looks like it’s shot in Technicolor though in the credits only Eastmancolor is mentioned – a film stock unfortunately not available anymore. The colors this film stock produces are to die for – check also i.e. Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series all shot too in Eastmancolor.

Watch it and then watch it again;-)

Pitti-pitti-paah ! Pitti-pitti-paah !

Evan Evans both manages and rules a cosmopolitan group of dancing showgirls. Since he is afraid of losing yet one another of his pretty dancers, he insists on all girls living in convent-like chastity and abstinence. However, real life has this messy habit of intruding…

The great Louis de Funès has starred in a number of immortal comedies, but “L’homme orchestre” is not one of them. The story and screenplay are very slight and do not provide much in the way of merriment, emotion or suspense. The jokes and gags provide the occasional amusement, but they could just as well have belonged in another movie. There’s not a genuine tale being told, and, as a result, there’s not a genuine tale to be interested in or moved by.

I can’t say that I was blown away by the quality of the music, the choreography or the dancing, although they did provide some luxuriant examples of 1970’s kitsch and camp.

Moreover, I found something repellent in the idea of a man controlling the looks, the weight and even the love life of his female underlings. It smacked of an abuse of power ; it also smacked of sexism and sex-related discrimation in the workplace. (In case you think I’m exaggerating, feel free to read some real-life cases about hard-working and competent dancers, artists, tour guides, air hostesses… who were humiliated or lost their jobs because they were thought too fat / too old / too ugly / too ethnic / too whatever. And do not forget to study the looks of the men who fired them.)

Psychedelic Circus (DVD) !

This is a rather obscure movie of De Funes even in France in spite of it is one of his best.

What makes the difference is not the comedy because he is as funny as ever but his compassionate side that we don’t see very often. This wasn’t a surprise because in interviews, you can see that he was a formidable gentleman even having tremendous success. But, there are only a few movies in which he shows his kindness.

Here, it begins with the relation that he shares with his real son in life, Olivier. They are nearly the only men in the movie and they are great together. As a father, De Funes is very attentive and caring. And for sure, the scenes he had with the babies are moving: he is totally sweet!

In addition, the movie is an explosion of colors and it is an amazing collection of how the 70’s, the flower power had impacted on France. Except maybe in “Dick Tracy”, I haven’t seen so much orange, yellow, red, black, blue…

At last, the movie offers a great trip in romantic place: Montecarlo, Roma…

For a movie which is a musical comedy, with dance, songs, music, ballets, I am totally appreciative! Bidibidi-BA!