{"id":32416,"date":"2020-03-25T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=32416"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:44:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:44:24","slug":"the-vacation-jerk-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/the-vacation-jerk-for-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abLe Corniaud\u00bb: a vacation for the people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: The coronary with Louis de Fun\u00e8s<\/a> - Loris S. Musumeci<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00abWhat I like about you is your simplicity.\u00bb<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My favorite film with de Fun\u00e8s. One of my favorite films altogether. I didn't know what I liked so much about this comedy. What moved me. De Fun\u00e8s and Bourvil? Yes, they're fantastic. The crossing of the Italian peninsula and its wonders? Yes, it's beautiful. The plot? Simple and catchy. The music? Sublime beyond words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Now I can see a little more clearly. Film analysis doesn't take anything away from films, nor does it add anything to them. But it is their continuity. And it translates them to see how they speak to us, revolt us, delight us or move us. By analyzing Le Corniaud<\/em>, I understood why I loved him so much. And even if I did, I'm no less moved by this delicate, authentic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oury, a popular director<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

G\u00e9rard Oury is once again at the helm. A comedy director with an infinitely sensitive and gentle eye. Popular director. But what does \u00abpopular director\u00bb mean? One who makes films for the people, yes. But I know others who pride themselves on making films for the people - whom they despise - and who only see their audience as an opportunity to cash in and, if necessary, to dumb them down. Panem et circenses<\/em>, isn't it? Fucking and blood, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A popular director is one who makes films for the people, but with the people in mind, their desires, their pleasures, their dreams, what makes them truly happy. The popular director offers a gift to the people. Le Corniaud<\/em> is a gift of comedy offered to the people in 1965. A gift which, in fact, contains several gifts of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bourvil, de Fun\u00e8s, music, dance and cinema<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The first gift is the reunion of Louis de Fun\u00e8s and Bourvil. Together, they're unbeatable. But they haven't played much together. They're not Laurel and Hardy. Nevertheless, as early as 1965, on the set of Corniaud<\/em>, they became very close. Friends mad with tenderness for each other. Accomplices. Companions. The budding friendship was immediately apparent on screen. It only lasted five years; Bourvil died in 1970. Nevertheless, with La Grande Vadrouille<\/a><\/em> (1966), Oury gave us this genial couple. And they gave us their friendship beyond the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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