AN ARTIST WITHA LADIES
(Savoy) AR: 16 and over only PROM the cut of the clothes, the style of the hairdressing, even the shape of the female characters (fashion will always be a more accurate method of dating films than Carbon 14), I should say this Fernandel comedy wasn’t made |. last year or even the year before. But its basic ingredient (the kind of allusive joke that the Freudians found a name for) has been the common property of mankind from time immoral. . Old Maitre Fernandel presents himself as a} born coiffeur des dames. From humble beginnings — plaiting and _ ribboning horses’ tails for agricultural shows-the film sketches (with a comic celerity) his rise to fame in the salons of the Champs Elysée and his final acquisition of the symbols of Parisian success: a faithful wife, an unfaithful mistress and the ribbon of the Légion d’Honneur. It is, you will> gather, exceedingly Gallic | comedy, but is too much dependent on the double entendre to rate as vintage Fernandel, but once or twice I felt that the jokes (especially as translated in the sub-titles) hung a little precariously ‘on the knuckle." On the whole, though, the old villain gets away with it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 929, 31 May 1957, Page 19
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200AN ARTIST WITHA LADIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 929, 31 May 1957, Page 19
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