Säihkyvät säilät (1961)

Säihkyvät säilät (1961). 1h 48m | K-12

“The 1955-65 era was the French swashbuckler heyday and Jean Marais was the hero of that generation.He had given up his artistic ambitions of the Cocteau period (u0026quot;la Belle et la Beteu0026quot; u0026quot; les parents terriblesu0026quot; ),but his panache and his charisma remained intact.Pierre Gaspard-Huit is not much of a director ,but itu0026#39;s adapted from a Theophile Gautier novel and thereu0026#39;s a good cast featuring Louis de Funes and Gerard Barray (later,Duvernois in u0026quot;abre los oyosu0026quot;)who was some Marais u0026#39;s alter ego and who plays the villain here.The ending is melodramatic to a fault -but so was Gautieru0026#39;s novel-and anyway Maraisu0026#39;s acrobatic feats (no stunt double,what contemporary actor can say the same?)are all that counts.”