Year: 1973
Duration: 01:30:03
Directed by: Jean-Claude Laureux
Actors: Françoise Brion, Corinne O’Brien, Michel Fortin
Language: French
Country: France
Also known as: Les bijoux de famille, Autista per signore, French Blue
Description: This mild-mannered social satire of the country’s privileged upper middle classes, themselves close to extinction post May 1968, plays out like a mixture of neutered Claude Chabrol and French boulevard theater which once offered blue collar audiences the opportunity to poke fun at their supposed “betters”. The Lafitte household’s in an uproar as their industrial tycoon patriarch pops his clogs under suspect circumstances. A successor needs to materialize pronto to fill the void. Meanwhile, proudly proletarian family chauffeur Marcel (recognizable character actor Michel Fortin, only accorded prominent parts in skin flicks like René Gainville’s ALYSE ET CHLOE and Jean-Claude Roy’s LA MAFFIA DU PLAISIR) proves occupied with filling voids of a different nature, gradually working his way through the entire estate, starting with saucy servant Juliette, effervescently essayed by lovely Corinne O’Brien who starred in Jean-François Davy’s Q.
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