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That Tender Age
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Wikipedia article
'That Tender Age' (French: 'L'ge ingrat'), is a 1964 French comedy film directed by Gilles Grangier that unites two major stars in Jean Gabin and Fernandel.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.163 It recounts how two families are drawn together by an engagement between two of their children, are then torn apart when the young couple fall out, and are finally reconciled.
It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location around the city and at Toulon. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Plot
Before parting for the summer vacation, the students Antoine Lartigue and Marie Malhouin decide to get engaged. Marie's father mile is guarded, but Antoine's father Adolphe is ecstatic and insists that all the Malhouin family must come and stay with his family in his villa at St Tropez. When they arrive, mile as a phlegmatic Norman finds the endless bonhomie and bragging of the Provenal Adolphe increasingly annoying. His son Antoine also has a fiery Mediterranean temperament, which erupts in a disco when Marie dances with an old flame and Antoine thumps him. Appalled, Marie breaks off the engagement.
Insulted at his son being rejected, Adolphe says more to mile than he should, upon which mile packs family and baggage into the car and drives straight back to Paris. One evening Marie does not come home and to try and find her mile rings everybody he can think of. The phone being constantly busy, Adolphe is unable to contact him. He has come to Paris to try and find Antoine, who has disappeared. When in apprehension he knocks on mile's door, he gets a frosty reception but at that point Marie rings home to say she is all right and with Antoine.
Cast
* Jean Gabin as mile Malhouin
* Fernandel as Adolphe Lartigue
* Marie Dubois as Marie Malhouin
* Franck Fernandel as Antoine Lartigue
* Paulette Dubost as Franoise Malhouin
* Claude Mann as Charles-douard
* Madeleine Sylvain as liane Lartigue
* Christine Simon as Florence Malhouin
* Henri Rellys as Monsieur Corbidas
* Franck Cabot-David as Henri Lartigue
* Andre Brabant as Femme sur pdalo
* Nicole Courget as Sophie Malhouin
* Jol Monteilhet as Jules Lartigue
* Yvonne Gamy as Flicie - la bonne
* Georges Rostan as Max Lartigue
* Nol Roquevert as L'estivant rcalcitrant
References
Bibliography
* Harriss, Joseph. 'Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France'. McFarland, 2018.
* Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen . 'The A to Z of French Cinema'. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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