(No Pockets in a Shroud)
Country: FR
Technical: col 125m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Serrault, Myriam Mézières, Sylvia Kristel
Synopsis:
Disgusted by the corruption of local politicians and big business, and the kowtowing of the press, a Vaucluse journalist starts up his own whistle-blowing paper, or 'canard'. However, in spite of his precautions and connections, he soon finds himself the target of gangland-style reprisals.
Review:
Typically abrasive Mocky satire, filmed 'entre potes' by a master iconoclast who still thinks he can assume the Bogart mantle and have every girl jump into bed with him. As often with this writer-director, it is a mixture of the scandalized and the scandalous, with a genuine reforming zeal counterbalanced by enormous lapses of taste. The direction is sloppy, the music grubby and insistent, but there is something disarming about its nonchalant offensiveness.
(No Pockets in a Shroud)
Country: FR
Technical: col 125m
Director: Jean-Pierre Mocky
Cast: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Serrault, Myriam Mézières, Sylvia Kristel
Synopsis:
Disgusted by the corruption of local politicians and big business, and the kowtowing of the press, a Vaucluse journalist starts up his own whistle-blowing paper, or 'canard'. However, in spite of his precautions and connections, he soon finds himself the target of gangland-style reprisals.
Review:
Typically abrasive Mocky satire, filmed 'entre potes' by a master iconoclast who still thinks he can assume the Bogart mantle and have every girl jump into bed with him. As often with this writer-director, it is a mixture of the scandalized and the scandalous, with a genuine reforming zeal counterbalanced by enormous lapses of taste. The direction is sloppy, the music grubby and insistent, but there is something disarming about its nonchalant offensiveness.
