Very Happy Alexander
8.4 /10 1 Votes
4.8/5 Amazon 8.1/10 Letterboxd Genre Comedy Duration Language French | 7.4/10 IMDb 85% Rotten Tomatoes Director Yves Robert Music director Vladimir Cosma Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 9 February 1968 (France)
17 February 1969 (U.S.)
21 December 1973 (West Germany) Writer Yves Robert (screenplay), Yves Robert (dialogue), Pierre Levy-Corti (adaptation) Screenplay Yves Robert, Pierre Levy-Corti Cast Philippe Noiret (Alexandre Gartempe), Françoise Brion (La Grande), Marlène Jobert (Agathe Bordot), Paul Le Person (Sanguin), Tsilla Chelton (Madame Bouillot), Pierre Richard (Colibert)Similar movies Descent Into Hell , Le Boucher , Le Deuxième Souffle , The Student , A Monkey in Winter , The Brain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Very Happy Alexander (French: Alexandre le bienheureux, "Blissful Alexander") is a 1968 French comedy film, directed by Yves Robert, starring Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert and Françoise Brion. This was comic actor Pierre Richard's second appearance on film, playing a secondary role toward the end of the plot.
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The film has been released on DVD on 4 May 2004.
Brief summary
Philippe Noiret plays a henpecked childless farmer that lives oppressed by his authoritarian and materialistic wife, being the only worker in his farm. Whenever he attempts to take a small rest, indulge in any distraction, or simply falls asleep out of exhaustion, there she is chasing him to move on. When she and her elderly parents are killed in a car accident, he decides that the time has come to take it easy and enjoy life a little, sets all his livestock free, and then practically disappears. The only clue that he is still alive is his dog, who periodically goes shopping to the nearby town with a basket in its mouth. Concerns about Alexander's fate are the center of the town's gossip. After several attempts, a delegation sent by the citizens finds he has retired—to his bed. This creates no small social upheaval in this working-class small French town where hard work is regarded as a virtue, and hence his attitude is viewed as a scandal and a menace.
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