Les petits matins (1962)

Comedy

"Les petits matins" is a story of eighteen-year old Agathe (Agathe Aëms) with a firm independence of men even if she uses them to get to the côte d'azur. Along the way she meets a lot of people , mostly men. And the director does not spare the sterotypical image of early 60s middle aged male cliches to lampoon. But this is all very light stuff, nothing too intellectual. But it's often charming, and there's a bevy of well-known actors involved. Jean -Claude Brialy (the pompous, self absorbed male lead of Rohmer's "Claire's Knee"), Claude Rich, Lino Ventura, François Perrier, Pierre Brasseur, and the couple Bernard Blier & Arletty, who team up here for the first time since Marcel Carné's "Hôtel du Nord" (1938).

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Runtime: 99 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Robert Hossein

Edouard, le fou

Lino Ventura

Paul, le chauffeur de car

Jean-Claude Brialy

Jean-Claude, le marchand de brosses

Bernard Blier

Mr Rameau, le provincial en 2 cv

Pierre Mondy

André, le manager de Bobby

Pierre Brasseur

Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly

Darry Cowl

le journaliste sportif au parapluie

Daniel Gélin

le comédien qui répète "Cyrano"