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Mado is a film directed by Claude Sautet with Michel Piccoli, Ottavia Piccolo, Jacques Dutronc, Charles Denner, Romy Schneider. Year: 1976. Original title: Mado. Synopsis: Middle-aged businessman Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts.
Pierre (Dutronc) is an old pal of Mado's taken on at her behest as Simon's factotum. The film's central thread is a feud between Simon and a crooked financier, which unwinds against a background ...
Jan 21, 1978 · "Mado" runs two hours and 10 minutes and feels interminable, but it still seems like only half a movie. Director Claude Sautet, a man able to devote his full attention to the tiniest of issues ...
Indeed, everyone and everything has a price in Mado: the debt-addled land developer Simon (Michel Piccoli); the oily Lépidon (Julien Guiomar), who specializes in bankrupting his competitors and buying up their assets at fire-sale prices; and the prostitute Mado (Ottavia Piccolo), who travels freely between the worlds of the haves and the have ...
Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Mado (1976) Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon’s unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon’s trap, Simon decides to ...
