On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter (1980)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Philippe de Broca

Writers:

Michel Audiard (dialogue)
Jean-Paul Rouland (character) ...

Release Date:

July 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple...

Plot Keywords:

Statue | Greece | Professor | Honeymoon | Greek

Cast

Annie Girardot	...	Lise Tanquerelle
Philippe Noiret	...	Antoine Lemercier
Francis Perrin	...	Charles-Hubert Pochet
Catherine Alric	...	Agnès Pochet
Marc Dudicourt	...	Spiratos
Paulette Dubost	...	La mère de Lise
Roger Carel	...	Sacharias, le conservateur
Anna Gaylor	...	La femme du touriste français
Gabriel Cattand	...	Le maire
Philippe Brizard	...	Le touriste français
Nikos Tsachiridis
Nikos Dafnis
Vassilis Kolovos	...	L'inspecteur de police (as Vassilis Colovos)

Also Known As:

Jupiter's Thigh

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Corfu, Greece

Company:

France 3 (FR 3)

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: In the scene when a man tries to throw Lise out of the train you can see that the nature out there is a screen.

Movie Connections:

Follows Tendre poulet (1978)

dumb as hell

I'm guessing that making this movie was a lot of fun, free trip to Greece and all, but the result is a typical genre of early Eighties French comedy that had previously put me off French cinema for over 10 years. Maybe we ought to give Broca credit for trying to deal with a serious topic (the black market of archeological antiquities) but the mixture of satire, slapstick, romance and police investigation is a total failure. Nice music and scenery though.