MOVIE · 1968
Very Happy Alexander
ComedyDrama100 min
After his authoritarian wife dies in a car crash, Alexandre decides he’s done working. Philippe Noiret is the young farmer, newly and stubbornly committed to staying in bed while the world keeps moving around him. Even meals and newspapers arrive by way of a dog, turning his refusal into a daily routine of its own. Marlène Jobert appears in Yves Robert’s offbeat French comedy, which builds its humor from a simple rebellion: one man treating idleness not as a lapse, but as a way of life.
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