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Antoine and Antoinette (French: Antoine et Antoinette) is a 1947 French comedy film directed by Jacques Becker. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert-Jules Garnier. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Antoine & Antoinette: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Roger Pigaut, Claire Mafféi, Noël Roquevert, Gaston Modot. Working class couple Antoine and Antoinette dream of a better life.
May 13, 2024 · Marie-Antoinette (born November 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria—died October 16, 1793, Paris, France) was the Austrian queen consort of King Louis XVI of France (1774–93).
May 18, 2024 · Antoine and Antoinette, Jacques Becker’s 1947 ode to the everyday life of working-class Parisians, opens amid the rhythmic, pounding machinery of a printing press. Antoine runs a machine that slices the edges off book blocks: we see the blades coming down and the white strips of paper falling away.
Antoine and Antoinette. In Paris, Antoinette (Claire Maffei) happily marries her boyfriend, Antoine Moulin (Roger Pigaut), even realizing that they are destined for a life of poverty.
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Antoine and Antoinette. Photograph from Everett. The director Jacques Becker builds this snappy and hearty comic melodrama, from 1947, out of streetwise details, from the stress and the...
The protagonists of Jacques Becker's Paris working-glass comedy is a young couple, the titular Antoine (Pigaut) and Antoinette (Mafféi), he works in a printing press and she in a department store, they don't have much savings and live in a frowzy apartment, but an exuberant sense of community permeates through their ordinary lives, and it is ...
From French auteur Jacques Becker comes the utterly charming farce Antoine and Antoinette. A working-class romance in the post-war, but also a bitter reflection on life and the (im)possibility of dreams, the film oscillates between Jean Renoir’s 1930s cinema and the upcoming New Wave.
Brief Synopsis: A weekend in the life of Antoine (Roger Pigaut) and his wife Antoinette (Claire Mafféi) whose humdrum life - he working for a Paris printing firm, she behind the counter of a 'prisunic' - is interrupted when a winning lottery ticket which could change their lives goes missing.
Sep 22, 2013 · A 1947 comedy of lower-middle-class manners, Jacques Becker’s Antoine and Antoinette bubbles with an optimistic portrait of a happily married young couple, and a lively gallery of supporting characters worthy of a Preston Sturges farce.
