Take a look at the 15 movies you'll be hearing about in fall 2024.

15 Fall Movies You Need to Know About

Take a look at the 15 movies you&#39;ll be hearing about in fall 2024.

From popular franchises to brand new worlds of exploration, science fiction and fantasy stories are more popular than ever. Check out our list of the best and brightest new and upcoming movies and series.

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Edouard Berlon (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a happy-go-lucky rogue who takes nothing seriously and flits irresponisbly from one affair to another. When he meets Helene Larouch (Anouk Aimee), he woos her although she is married to Andre (Francois Maistre), until finally the combination of his youth, exuberance, absurd family (including a few infants of undetermined origin and a number of stray dogs)and eccentric way of life compared to the aridity of her marriage, overcome her resistance. They are both soon disenchanted.

This movie could accurately be described as a whimsical conceit that tends to out-stay its welcome. Admittedly, a hard-working cast, including Jean-Pierre Cassel and the lovely Anouk Aimée, does make a good impression. And there is also a delightful music score by Georges Delerue. The movie&#39;s main problems lie in the script by Daniel Boulanger and Philippe de Broca. De Broca also directs, and perhaps at least one of these chores was a mistake. There are just too many dull patches in the script and certainly not enough inventiveness to carry it for ninety minutes. Half an hour shorter, the movie would be a delight, but as it stands, it just misses the bus. French title: Le Farceur.

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The Joker

With Le Farceur we have (after Les Jeux de L&#39;Amour, 1960, by the same Philippe de Broca) another Jean-Pierre Cassel festival, who jumps, dances, runs, sings, whistles, taps, etc. In short, who makes a festival. In short, who makes a festival. A character who sleeps with all the women he meets, his first wife, the maid, his mistress (the husband is of course not happy), Anouk Aimé (her husband does not care and seems concerned only with money), the maid of the hotel, and the two mothers of his two children. We are in a bourgeois family that has been, with Georges Wilson, Geneviève Cluny, a family of entertainers who do not move, of which Jean-Pierre Cassel seems to be the only one to leave the house; and one that is: Anouk Aimé, her husband, a capitalist boss, François Maistre, brilliant as often (his first scene is brilliant and worthy of an anthology). All the scenes taking place in the family of acrobats that had been are also very well written and constitute the flavor of the film, with a geography of the house and a work on the sets that impresses the view, which could also be a theater set. The scenes with Anouk Aimée are more bland and less exciting, probably because the dramatic subtext emerges rather quickly. Under the guise of a joyful film and a joyful character, it is finally a very sad story that the film tells, the character of Jean-Pierre Cassel, changing women according to the meetings, finds himself alone, within his family. And does not seem to know how to have a real love story.

...and however the first scene promised great things:the first line is &quot;Ciel mon Mari&quot; (= good heavens ,my hubby!) a line we often find in the FRench &quot;Theatre de Boulevard&quot; .A lover (Cassel) is escaping from his lover&#39;s bedroom on the roofs of Paris,near la Tour Eiffel,when the husband his cursing him! But what follows is downright boring.Cassel&#39;s family and their lifestyles are a real turnoff:uncle Theodose(sic),sister Pilou and brother Guillaume are really the pain in the neck.Not to mention his natural sons.Cassel is cast as &quot;the joker&quot; (check the title)but he is a heavy one .Anouk Aimée is totally wasted as his -at last- true love !&quot;you must have had thirty women before me&quot; is supposed to be a funny line. The joke is on the viewer.

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The Joker

A near miss!

Joyful movie, with touch of sadness

Don't you think the joker laughs at you!

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