Faubourg 36 (Paris 36) (2008)
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 51 | Rotten: 31
Sweet and light, this homage to French vaudeville -- and Francophilia in general -- is pretty, but its air of nostalgia occasionally borders on the saccharine.
Average Rating: 5.1/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 11
Sweet and light, this homage to French vaudeville -- and Francophilia in general -- is pretty, but its air of nostalgia occasionally borders on the saccharine.
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A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management. While such matters might normally seem unimportant to Germain Pigoil (Gérard Jugnot), who runs a
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Cast
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Gérard Jugnot
Germain Pigoil -
Clovis Cornillac
Emile 'Milou' Leibovich -
Kad Merad
Jacky Jacquet -
Nora Arnezeder
Douce -
Pierre Richard
Monsieur TSF -
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Galapiat -
Maxence Perrin
Jojo -
François Morel
Célestin, Célestin, C?... -
Élisabeth Vitali
Viviane -
Christophe Kourotchkine
Lebeaupin -
Eric Naggar
Grevoul -
Eric Prat
Commissioner Tortil -
Julien Courbey
Mondain -
Philippe Du Janerand
Triquet -
Marc Citti
Inspector at Quai des O... -
Christian Bouillette
Dubrulle -
Thiery Nenez
Crouzet
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All Critics (82) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (31) | DVD (3)
Essentially a pastiche, as musty as a flea market.
Top CriticParis 36 is a handsomely made French musical that never really soars.
An utterly charming and sentimental French melodrama with music, a nostalgic look backstage and back in history.
Paris 36 is perhaps overlong for what it is, and it's certainly feather-light, but it gives its watcher an uncomplicated pleasure; like looking through a faded scrapbook, filled with memories once bright.
The nicest that can be said of this unapologetically schmaltzy, and not unenjoyable, affair is that it is the best 1936 musical made in 2009.
It's an overstuffed homage to a bygone style of show business rather than a vigorous piece of entertainment on its own.
Barratier (Les Choristes) seems to be making a bid to be France's new master of sweet nostalgia with a musical bent.
Destined to be one of the season's most energetic white elephants.
A tasty, tuneful Gallic confection.
A simplistic, uncomplicated multi-storied exploration of the French depression.
A sumptuous and emotionally substantive look at the triumph of artistic will in the face of difficult circumstances.
big, overwrought melodrama that celebrates the joy of big, overwrought melodramas
A frothy concoction that thrives on the improvisational creativity found on a stage.
It is a musical comedy/drama set in another time and place that asks you to give yourself over... If you're willing to play along the result is magnifique.
Elegant, reality-tinged silliness.
It's clearly old-fashioned entertainment, and while the blue-hairs will dig it, I suspect many of us with brown, blonde, black or red hair will embrace it as well.
A stereotypical 'little' French film that nevertheless comes wrapped in an awfully sweet package.
Those who like their movies (a) cute and (b) in French will go oui, oui, oui all the way home after spending 120 minutes with this rose-tinted homage to the neighborhood music halls of France...
You'll leave the theater feeling really, really good.
This flaky French import can't stick to one story and can't find a way to resolve its myriad story lines in the proper fashion.
Whimsical and toothless.
Paris 36 is ultimately about men and power.
Oh my goodness, I didn't expect this: Paris 36 is The Muppet Show in, you know, Paris in 1936.
Paris 36 is one of those exasperating movies which can't decide what it want to be and, as a result, ends up being not very much as all.
It's a complete confection -- handsome, sentimental. In the end, it works as entertainment.
Audience Reviews for Faubourg 36 (Paris 36)
Everyone has their falls from grace and their subsequent redemptions. The music is perky fun, and the frame story starts and stops at reasonable places. It's just a nice, happy movie :~)
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Foreign Titles
- Paris, Paris - Monsieur Pigoil auf dem Weg zum Glück (DE)
- Paris 36 (Faubourg 36) (UK)
FAUBOURG 36, or Paris 36 (as it's known outside of France), is evidently clichéd, but beautiful nonetheless. Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad and Nora Arzeneder are outstanding in the four most prominent roles in the Christophe Barratier (Les Choristes)-directed film.
The rushed, and unnecessarily tragic ending is a dark spot on an otherwise bright film.