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Les joyeux lurons

1972 · 82 min

A light, farcical romp through a French village, full of broad comic mischief and gentle irreverence.

Directed by
Michel Gérard
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Alice Sapritch, Paul Préboist, Michel Galabru
Overview
Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...

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Directed by
Michel Gérard
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Alice Sapritch, Paul Préboist, Michel Galabru
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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • faith
  • class
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour8
Realism6
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
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Runtime
82 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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