Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: a cult comedy with Louis de Funès.
Regardless of the circumstances, Louis de Funès has this innate power to make (television) viewers smile again, to make them forget their worries for a few moments and to heal their wounds with cult grimaces. That’s why a Sunday evening is always less gloomy with a comedy from the maestro of good humor.
This evening, C8 is broadcasting Jean Girault’s Great Vacation, the most successful French box office of 1967 with around 7 million viewers. To our delight, Louis de Funès embodies the role of the eternal complainer who made him famous. He lends his features to Charles Bosquier, owner and director of a boarding school for children from well-to-do families, who sends his son Philippe, who has failed in the baccalaureate partly because of his deplorable level of English, to a Scotch whiskey distiller for the summer holidays. In return, he welcomes Shirley, the latter’s daughter.
On the occasion of this well-paced vaudeville which plays on the opposition of French and Anglo-Saxon cultures, Louis de Funès gives the answer to his real son, Olivier de Funès, alongside whom he has already played in Fantômas unleashes and Le Grand restaurant, and which he will then find again in Hibernatus, L’Homme orchestra and On a perched tree.
Jean Girault’s summer vacation with Louis de Funès, Ferdy Mayne, Martine Kelly…
Tonight on C8 at 9:10 p.m.