The Great Love
Le Grand amour
Pierre Etaix
Pierre meets Florence, a well-educated young woman and only child of a wealthy family. Quickly, Pierre finds himself engaged, then married. The years pass, and though finally promoted to the important position of manager of his father-in-law's tannery, Pierre is bored. But one day his longstanding secretary, about to retire, presents Pierre with her replacement, Agnès...
With : Pierre Etaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Louis Maïs
Screenplay : Pierre Etaix, Jean-Claude Carrière
Image : Jean Boffety
Decors : Daniel Louradour, Jean Gallaud
Music : Claude Stieremans
Editing : Henri Lanoe, Michel Lewin
Screenplay : Pierre Etaix, Jean-Claude Carrière
Image : Jean Boffety
Decors : Daniel Louradour, Jean Gallaud
Music : Claude Stieremans
Editing : Henri Lanoe, Michel Lewin
Production : Madeleine Films, Paul Claudon et les Productions de La Guéville
"Etaix's forth feature film is suave and discreet, but equally incisive, lucid, even fierce. The Great Love delicately and expertly illuminates so many scenes of married life. (...) The formal challenge is to succeed in making the film comical with a plot that is not comical, but actually perfectly banal. There were two traps to avoid, making vaudeville or a bitter drama, two genres that Etaix always refused to film and that he eliminates here with his comic talent. With The Great Love, Etaix succeeds in conjuring a charming and melancholy film out of an endlessly recurrent theme in cinema" (R. Marx).