Les grandes vacances / The Exchange Student (1967)
Les grandes vacances / The Exchange Student (1967)
DVDRip | MKV | 716 x 436 | AVC @ 1900 Kbps | 89 min | 1.31 Gb
Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Polish (embedded)
Genre: Comedy | France
DVDRip | MKV | 716 x 436 | AVC @ 1900 Kbps | 89 min | 1.31 Gb
Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Polish (embedded)
Genre: Comedy | France
Charles Bosquier, a role apparently written for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial headmaster of a French strict boarding school. No father could be deeper shocked to find one of his own sons miserably failed his exams, and too embarrassed to enroll him for his own summer-school, so he sends Philippe to England as exchange student. Philippe planned to save his sailing plans with friends by sending fat nerd Stephane Michonnet to England using his name, which comes out when Michonnet gets indigestion. Meanwhile Charles expects his spoiled favorite son, Gérard, who tells daddy about all the other schoolboys for money, to chaperon Shirley, the daughter of his English counterpart MacFarrell, but the girl gets all French boys horny, so even his perfect record is soon gravely soiled as dad spies on them, and he and Shirley join Philippe and his friends. Now the headmaster chases the kids' yacht -incognito, to avoid a scandal- all the way to England, where his colleague soon joins him, and further…
IMDB 6.6/10 from 1911 users
Les grandes vacances / The Exchange Student (1967)
Les grandes vacances / The Exchange Student (1967)
Director: Jean Girault
Writer: Jacques Vilfrid (screenplay), Jean Girault (screenplay)
Actors: Louis de Funès, Ferdy Mayne, Martine Kelly, François Leccia
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 89 min
Monsieur Bosquier, the proprietor of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe's host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and elope to Scotland to get married…
– James Travers
After a string of box office hits (not least of which were the early Gendarme films) director Jean Girault and comic actor Louis de Funès found further success with Les Grandes vacances, a typical 1960s farce which is mainly concerned with that French national pastime of sending up the English. The film has little in the way of intellectual merit, consisting largely of overly milked improbable comic situations (including a madcap chase to Gretna Green), but, for all that, it still has an unfaltering capacity to make its audience laugh out loud. In common with many of Jean Girault's films, the comic genius lies not in the script but in its execution - more specifically, in de Funès' immense talent as a superlative comic performer.
The film amply illustrates Louis de Funès' unerring ability to transform relatively mundane comic situations into feats of belt-bursting hilarity. It also perhaps reveals his own personal insecurity, through his need to work with people he knew well (Jean Girault being a prime example of this). Claude Gensac plays the part with which she is now most associated - de Funès' long-suffering wife - whilst the comic star's own son, Olivier, appears in one of his earliest acting jobs. De Funès père et fils often appeared together (on screen and on stage) for several years until the son decided that, after their last film Sur un arbre perché (1971), acting was not after all his métier. Tastes in comedy change over time, yet, whilst many 1960s comic films now appear dated and distinctly unsophisticated, Jean Girault's films, despite their naivety and clumsy excesses, somehow remain appealing and largely entertaining - although this is almost entirely down to Louis de Funès extraordinary comic presence. For all its faults, Les Grandes vacances is an appealing film - rambling, somewhat silly, but uplifting and great fun, especially for devotees of France's greatest comedy icon.
Les grandes vacances / The Exchange Student (1967)
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