Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: a cult film with tasty and timeless lines.
“Assholes dare to do anything, that’s even how we recognize them.” “You have to admit… It’s brutal.” “But Raoul doesn’t know this guy! You’re going to have a painful awakening…” These cult replicas, you probably know them, come from the great classic Les Tontons flingueurs. And there are not only three, far from it!
Released in theaters in 1963, Les Tontons Flingueurs, directed by Georges Lautner, tells the story of Fernand Naudin, owner of a small tractor factory who leads a quiet and uneventful life when a telegram calls him to Paris. He arrives in time to receive the last breath of a childhood friend, Louis known as “the Mexican”, who entrusts him with his shady affairs at the same time as the custody of his daughter Patricia. And the troubles begin…
Carried by the irresistible dialogues of Michel Audiard, Les Tontons flingueurs remains a timeless classic of French cinema. The verve of the characters played by Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier and Francis Blanche cannot be left unmoved!
Adaptation of the novel Grisbi or not Grisbi by Albert Simonin (also co-screenwriter), Les Tontons flingueurs was the first collaboration between Georges Lautner and the dialogue writer Michel Audiard, which continued for thirteen other films, among which we can cite Ne nous fâchons pas (1966) or again The Professional (1981).
For the record, the atmosphere on the set of Tontons flingueurs was very funny. Indeed, Francis Blanche, who came from the café-theater, liked to use self-deprecation to the point of excess, to the great dismay of his partner Lino Ventura who, for his part, preferred things written and established in advance. Having understood this, Georges Lautner remained deaf to Ventura’s complaints and on the contrary encouraged François Blanche in this direction.
Tonight on France 2 at 9:10 p.m.
The Top 5 films of 1963 according to spectators: