Actuakers
One of my all time favorites.
SteinMo
What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
boblipton
When Marcello Mastroianni is feeling run down, Catherine Deneuve is worried that he is going to die and leave her and their eight-year-old son, so she hectors him into seeing her doctor. It turns out he's pregnant.Jacques Demy's dry satire has an increasingly big-bellied Mastroianni walking around with a befuddled expression, while the world spins slightly out of control around him. Everyone in picture takes the events very calmly and seriously, and everyone is mildly congratulatory towards the expectant father. The few jokes are mild and of the biter-bit variety and, except for the sequence when he gets involved in a campaign of clothing for pregnant men, there isn't much to this trifle.Given the date of its release and the birth of his son, Mathieu, I suspect Demy started writing it when Agnes Varda offered some irritated comments on her pregnancy.
writers_reign
Given the starting line-up - Jacques Demy, Micheline Presle, Catherine Deneuve, Toni Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni - punters were, I feel, entitled to more than a faux farce that is neither fish nor fowl. A subject like this - man gets pregnant by woman - was meat and drink to Billy Wilder who would have shot the bejeezus out of it, as would his French counterpart Francis Weber, instead it wound up in the (on this occasion) inept hands of Jacques Demy who delivered (sorry) what can only be described as an aborted comedy (sorry, again). Apart from the central one, all sorts of improbabilities punctuate the film, such as successful and busy gynaecologist (Micheline Presle) who thinks nothing (apparently) of deserting her office to accompany Mastroianni and Deneuve to visit a consultant. Adding insult to injury Toni Marshall was on and off screen before you could say 'PUSH'.
mooning_out_the_window
This film is light and enjoyable, so don't expect to be stunned by it visually or in terms of depth or content. Demy as a director was brilliant, and it was one of four films he made with Catherine Deneuve, who is adding another comedy to her repertoire. It is about a man who apparently becomes pregnant with his wife's child rather than the other way around, and this first male pregnancy sparks an international trend.The film is funny and light. Deneuve wanted to work with Mastroianni, who she was in a relationship with and had a child my him, and Demy gave them the opportunity.The film does not showcase either Deneuve's or Mastroianni's acting ability, which for both is considerable. However, it does give laughs and light entertainment. It also allows for some interesting costumes and is essentially the predecessor to the film Junior.A decent comedy with good laughs, but don't expect a classic French film. Accept it for what it is and you'll enjoy it. In this way it is more that successful.
dbdumonteil
Jacques Demy had made the precedent year his brilliant "pied piper" ,the best version of the German legend I know.Commercially,it was a colossal flop.Demy returned to his native France and gave his favorite actress Catherine Deneuve one of her worst parts ever.She's cast as Mastroianni 's wife and he is pregnant by her:you read well!A false good idea.It could have been a feminist fable it's not much more than a painful farce.Micheline Presles,who was part of the cast of the marvelous "Peau d'Ane" ,appears as the local gynecologist.Don't get fooled by the bombastic hyperbolic title ,which is one of the longest in the French cinema.This movie was the beginning of Demy 's long decline.Although he would occasionally come up with an estimable movie ("une chambre en ville" )he would never match the brilliance of his sixties best works.
