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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.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Jacques Becker
- 1947-09-27
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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- Roger Pigaut
- Jacques Becker
- Romance, Comedy
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.
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.
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...
Jacques Becker's Antoine et Antoinette bears echoes of the early-talkie Rene Clair classic Le Million. Roger Pigaut plays Antoine, a foreman in a bookbinding factory, while Claire Maffei portrays his salesgirl wife Antoinette.
