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Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

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Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:39:54 | 6,80 Gb
Audio: #1 French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps; #2 English dub AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance | The Criterion Collection #451

Director: Christian-Jaque
Stars: Gérard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand

Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque’s devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV’s army to avoid a forced marriage to a local lass and gets himself into close scrapes and tight squeezes with Gina Lollobrigida’s impostor fortune-teller, Adeline, on his way to fighting in the Seven Years’ War. Filled to the brim with dazzling stunts and randy innuendo, Fanfan la Tulipe, which won the best director prize at Cannes and was a smash hit upon its initial release, remains one of France’s all-time most beloved films.

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Fanfan la Tulipe is a ridiculously entertaining adventure film, nothing more, nothing less. The 1952 French swashbuckler is classic moviemaking at its most fun, a lightweight actioner with a wink in its eye and a sparkle in its smile.

Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

Matinee idol Gerard Philipe is the title character, a rapscallion who joins the army of Louis XV (Marcel Herrand) in order to escape a shotgun wedding with a provincial lass. He signs up believing it will lead to his marrying the King's daughter, Henriette (Sylvie Pelayo), a false prophecy delivered by the daughter of the captain of the guard, a luscious lass who pretends to be a gypsy. This gal, Adeline (Gina Lollobrigida), has wooed many a man into believing many a lie all in the service of lining daddy's regiment. Of course, she has met her match in a rogue like Fanfan, and even after he is told she duped him, he continues to believe that a royal wedding is in his future.

Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

As fate would have it, this far-fetched notion may not fetch as far as originally thought. On his way to basic training, the caravan of La Franchise (Nerio Bernardi), Adeline's pa, happens to be riding parallel with the carriage of Princess Henriette and the Marquise de Pompadour (Genevieve Page) when it is attacked by highwaymen. Though the other soldiers would rather hide and let the bandits pass, Fanfan rushes to the rescue, sword in hand. He successfully routes the attackers, and the Marquise presents him with a bejeweled tulip, hence his nickname. Having now glimpsed his romantic quarry, Fanfan will stop at nothing to scale the castle walls and glimpse her again, getting himself and his pals into trouble and inadvertently winning the affection of Adeline, who then manages to capture the hearts of Fanfan and King Louis alike. And why not? She's Gina Lollobrigida, for goodness sake, and while women as beautiful as her have started many a war, she may be the first to have ended one. In his fight for her hand, Fanfan manages to bring the Seven Years' War to a close. All in a days work!

Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

If my writing skills are worth a damn and that description was fun for you to read, then you will certainly enjoy Fanfan la Tulipe. I enjoyed writing the above, and I definitely enjoyed watching the flick. Directed by Christian-Jaque, this comic action picture is about as unpretentious a pleasure as you are likely to find. It's not overly elaborate, nor does it intellectualize, but it's not stupid either. In fact, there are some quite clever touches, including a narrative voiceover that casts a wry eye backwards over history, and a reverse masking audio effect that renders the English soldiers' dialogue as incomprehensible to our ears as it would have been to their French enemies. It sounds like a one of the adults from the Peanuts animated cartoons wandered into a Twin Peaks dream sequence.

Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

Gerard Philipe is an irresistible cinema star. He may not be as acrobatic as Douglas Fairbanks, but he's at least as much of a rake as Errol Flynn. His boyish good looks and optimistic charm makes him a joy to watch, and his continual and often unexplained outsmarting of his enemies is almost as funny as the many times he cockily blunders into his own defeat. Philipe has a natural agility that makes the swordplay appear easy. One can't help but root for him to get the girl and save the day.

Fanfan la Tulipe is bawdy, exiting, romantic, and a tad bit silly. In other words, totally delightful.

Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

Fanfan la Tulipe - Criterion Collection is a pleasure from start to finish. This 1952 French action film is old-school entertainment at its finest. Starring Gerard Philipe as the rapacious swordsman and the gorgeous Gina Lollobrigida as the girl who both drives him crazy and confounds his heart, the movie is brimming with both physical and verbal swordplay. Criterion has brought the movie to DVD with a beautiful black-and-white transfer, and it is Highly Recommended.
Jamie S. Rich, DVDTalk
Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]
Fanfan la Tulipe / Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952) [The Criterion Collection #451] [Re-UP]

Special Features:
- Restored digital transfer
- New video program about actor Gérard Philipe
- A clip from the colorized version of the film
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation

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