Louis de Funés was a phenomenon of popularity in French and European cinema from 1964 until his death in 1983. Of Spanish-Portuguese descent, he first made a career as a jazz pianist, before making his acting debut at just 31 years old. He achieved great success, however, from 1964 onwards, already after the age of 50, playing comedy roles, mainly physical, with an always frowning, stubborn, grumpy air, with grotesque facial expressions, a kind of Scrooge in a burlesque version.
The character caught on and was explored to exhaustion, only to be interrupted by the premature death of the artist at the age of 68.
This film is yet another tailor-made comedy by the grumpy Funés, accompanied by Annie Girardot, in which they play a couple in a marital war, between the industrialist husband and the ecologist wife.
The character caught on and was explored to exhaustion, only to be interrupted by the premature death of the artist at the age of 68.
This film is yet another tailor-made comedy by the grumpy Funés, accompanied by Annie Girardot, in which they play a couple in a marital war, between the industrialist husband and the ecologist wife.