La Dernière Bourrée à Paris (Last bourrée in Paris, in French) is a 1973 French comedy film, directed by Raoul André.
Plot Berthe who lives a peaceful life is fascinated by the film Last Tango in Paris. During a strike in Paris, she finds an unoccupied apartment on the bank of the Seine and decides she wants to live love there with a man she has just met.
Cast
Patricia Lesieur as Berthe Payrac Tony Kendall as Victor Francis Blanche as Gaston Payrac Michel Galabru as Jules Payrac Marion Game as Lucie Daniel Prévost as Philippe Paul Préboist as Émile Jacques Préboist as François Danièle Nègre as Solange Annie Cordy as The psychoanalyst Roger Coggio as Man from Trust Micheline Dax as The apartment's owner Nicole Gobbi as The prostitute Christian Marin Darling Légitimus Paul Bisciglia Bernard Musson
Production According to Galabru, the film was shot on location in a mental institution with a group of folkloric dancers from Auvergne. The title song, composed by Vladimir Cosma, was sung by Annie Cordy, who also plays in the film. Despite the original idea of the film being to create parody of Last Tango in ParisPatrick Besson, Le Plateau télé: Chronique du temps passé devant la télévision, Fayard, 2010, the director presented the film as a "modern comedy of manners"
Reception The film was very poorly received, one contemporary critic finding in it the "epitome of modern idiocy". Michel Galabru later recalled how he himself had found the premise ludicrous.
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