Le Magnifique
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Directed by | Philippe de Broca |
Produced by | Georges Dancigers Alexandre Mnouchkine |
Written by | Philippe de Broca Vittorio Caprioli Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
Starring | Jean-Paul Belmondo Jacqueline Bisset |
Cinematography | René Mathelin |
Distributed by | Cine III |
Release date(s) | 1973 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Language | French |
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Le Magnifique (litteraly The Wonderful) is a French movie released in 1973, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Le Magnifique is a slapstick spoof of B-series espionage movies and novels.
[edit] Synopsis
The hero (Belmondo) is a writer of pulp espionage novels, and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned spy Bob Saint Clar. Jacqueline Bisset is a sociology student who is interested in the novels, but in the writer's imagination, she is Tatiana, his paramour.
This is an unpretentious movie—the jokes are not subtle, but the overall effect is quite funny if taken the right way.