
Irma La Douce
1963, Comedy, 2h 27m
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Irma La Douce
Nestor Patou, Lord X
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Insp. Lefevre
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Critic Reviews for Irma La Douce
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (5)
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Set mainly in a bawdy-house that is never in the least bawdy, Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce is the kind of fantasy much favoured by Hollywood -- a sex comedy from which sex has been carefully eradicated.
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Though Irma's 143-minute length is more than a little too much of a very good thing, it's hard to dislike a movie that keeps giving you more good stuff.
January 26, 2019 | Full Review… -
Lemmon and Maclaine fail to reproduce the chemistry from The Apartment but this slight film is not as ignorable as reputation suggests.
January 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Irma also misses on several important counts, and the fact that it does illustrates the sizable problems inherent in an attempt to convert a legit musical into a tuneless motion picture farce.
March 26, 2009 | Full Review… -
A good example of how a movie can be utterly characteristic of its maker and still fall with a resounding thud...
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Wilder's soft-centred cynicism provides frequent enough laughs without too many longueurs.
June 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Irma La Douce
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Aug 20, 2018Wilder, Lemmon and MacLaine team up again after their collaboration in The Apartment to offer us a funny and audacious farce that works well enough despite being a bit overlong and clumsy in parts, especially as it becomes more and more contrived towards the end.Carlos M Super Reviewer
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Feb 24, 2018"the apartment" with a bigger budget and less of a point, Wilder reteams lemmon and Maclaine in essentially the same roles, under different, lighter circumstances and a Parisian locale. it's not bad, per se, only light entertainment. Network television used to run the film every year.Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
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Nov 04, 2013Thanks to Lemmon and MacLaine, we get some some great laughs about a man in love with a prostitute and the extreme lengths he takes to keeping her away from other men. Great goofiness as only Lemmon can pull off.John B Super Reviewer
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Apr 05, 2012This is a fun film, but it doesn't near comparison to wilder's work with the two stars in 'the apartment." ...but no one said that it should.Stefanie C Super Reviewer
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