L'etrange Monsieur Victor

Charlie Chaplin plays shockingly against type in his most controversial film, a brilliant and bleak black comedy about money, marriage, and murder. Chaplin is a twentieth-century bluebeard, an enigmatic family man who goes to extreme lengths to support his wife and child, attempting to bump off a series of wealthy widows (including one played by the indefatigable Martha Raye, in a hilarious performance). This deeply philosophical and wildly entertaining film is a work of true sophistication, both for the moral questions it dares to ask and for the way it deconstructs its megastar’s lovable on-screen persona.

En soixante-dix ans de métier, il a brûlé les planches et tourné dans quelque deux cents films, écrivant en parallèle des scénarios, produisant et réalisant même trois longs métrages. Formé au théâtre, où il débute en 1945, Michel Piccoli a déjà la quarantaine quand il émerge au cinéma. Repéré au début des années 1960 dans Le doulos de Melville, il entre enfin en pleine lumière avec Le mépris de Godard.

In the aftermath of the First World War, a 20 years old Norman bourgeois discovers the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, guided by a young Russian emigrant he met in the trenches of Verdun . Camera in hand, he goes through the district of Montparnasse and frequents "les p'tites femmes de Pigalle".

Expulsés de son logement, Diogène Leguignon, lampiste à la S.N.C.B., et sa femme sont relogés dans un quartier populaire. Mais leur nouvel appartement recèle un trésor convoîté de tous…

Pierre, ein verwitweter Rentner hat seit zwei Jahren das Haus nicht mehr verlassen. Dank Alex, einem jungen Mann, den seine Tochter angeschleppt hat, um ihrem Vater mit dem Computer zu helfen entdeckt Pierre die Freuden des Internets und vor allem die Vorzüge von Dating-Seiten.

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine. The film ends as Verdoux is being led to the guillotine in the prison courtyard after dismissing his killing of a few as no worse than the highly-praised killing of large numbers of people in every war.