Is this for you? If you have a weird, specific soft spot for French theater-turned-cinema from the early talkie era, you might get a kick out of Feu Toupinel. Everyone else? Probably not. It is slow, it is noisy, and it feels like it is stuck in the mud of its own dialogue. Unless you find 1930s slapstick and endless i...
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"Is this for you? If you have a weird, specific soft spot for French theater-turned-cinema from the early talkie era, you might get a kick out of Feu Toupinel. Everyone else? Probably not. It is slow, it is noisy, and it feels like it is stuck in the mud of its own dialogue. Unless you find 1930s slapstick and endless inheritance squabbles charming, you are going to be checking your watch. The whole thing feels like a stage play that someone forgot to take off the stage. The actors are constantl..."
Alexandre Bisson, Georges Dolley, Albert Carré
France
1935 · IMDb —
