La Grande Vadrouille: A Netflix movie lauded as a classic by Louis de Funès – Actus Ciné

La Grande Vadrouille, a classic directed by Louis de Funès and Bourvil, airs on Sunday evenings on France 2. It is a monument to French laughter, a huge mass hit with more than 17 million spectators in theaters, and is also a reference beyond our borders.

Proof that La Grande Vadrouille left its mark on people abroad? A major international director recently paid tribute to the popular comedy that has been in theaters for more than half a century. This director is Mexican Alfonso Cuaron, who already included a long scene from the film in Rome.

From the distribution of Netflix, Roma and Golden Lion in Venice, It recounts the turbulent year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.Alfonso CuaronLa Grande Vadrouille, which appears in the cinema where the character Cleo is located, is hard to miss, maintained by Yalitza Aparicio. For several minutes, in a very beautiful scene in a still shot, we can find in a somewhat unexpected way the classic by Gerard Ory.

In 2018, Alfonso Cuarón explained to our microphone why he honors La Grande Vadrouille. “Because it’s a great movie, and also because it’s a movie that was already showing at the time and I saw it a few times in the cinema when I was a kid.”Tell us. “We also closely followed the television programs during this period in which the events of the film are taking place,” he added.

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