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C'est pas moi, c'est lui
1980 Comedy
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Credits
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Director: Pierre Richard
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Script: Alain Godard, Pierre Richard
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Photo: Claude Agostini
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Music: Vladimir Cosma
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Cast: Pierre Richard (Pierre Renard),
Aldo Maccione (Aldo Barazzutti),
Valérie Mairesse (Valérie),
Danielle Minazzoli (Charlotte Renard),
Annette Poivre (La mère de Pierre),
Marie-Christine Deshayes (Anne-Marie Weiss),
Gérard Hernandez (Le vendeur de poteries au souk),
Franca Valeri (Carla Weiss),
Henri Garcin (Georges Vallier)
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Country: France
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Language: French
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Runtime: 105 min
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Aka: It's Not Me, It's Him
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Summary
Georges Vallier owes his success as a celebrity screenwriter to his underpaid ghost writer
Pierre Renard. When Pierre protests at the way he has been exploited, Valier allows
him to take his place at a garden party hosted by the Italian film star Aldo Barazzutti.
The latter invites Pierre to accompany him to Tunisia where they will work together on
their next script. Thinking this is just the opportunity he needs to make his career,
Pierre accepts, having no idea of what adventures lie in store…
Review
Pierre Richard doesn’t quite live up to his reputation as a master of film comedy
in this lacklustre comedy, which he directed, co-scripted and starred in. A tired,
inconsequential plot proves to be a mere pretext for a series of comic situations, some
of which work very well, others of which fail spectacularly. The lack of imagination
in the script is not reflected in Pierre Richard’s performance which, as ever, is
unceasingly entertaining. The actor is however let down by a weak supporting cast,
whose wooden – and sometimes irritating – contributions drag the film down
to the level of a tedious bargain basement farce. Whilst there are some utterly
hilarious moments in this film (the best being the thieving camel sequence), overall it
just fails to satisfy.
© James Travers 2004
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