The Worst Film Ever

Best movie ever!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Every once in a while a movie sneaks up on you and just really flat out surprises you. For me, this was one of those movies. The french sure have a way with wit and comedy. They were masters at it. This one is at the top of the pile for sure. I guess you can't go back again but if you could, I would request more french comedies just like this one. My day got a whole lot better watching this. This one is classified as a comedy and rightly so, but ,there needs to be another category for movies like this...Charming. If your not smiling or happy or not feeling better after watching this, you need therapy. They don't make em like this anymore. Absolutely fantastic film.

Seeing back this old movie from my youth - which was in the sixties one of my father's favourites - is a still a delight.Alexandre le bienheureux is based upon one 'lesson of life': enjoy every minute of your life, and don't let you force to do anything you don't want to do. Not everyone can accept this kind of 'freedom' - and also in the plot, Alexandre is causing to split his village in two parties: one fully fighting his principles, and the other party, fully accepting his new lifestyle, and imitating him in his escapades. Of course, this is a typical French movie of a far away era - but it was able to retain its original, surprising spirit and quality - as well in the scenario and humor, the 'mise en scene', the excellent acting of Philippe Noiret, the sharp dialogs. I admit, it has not the 'fast track' of the present movies, it's surely not the latest 007, but on the other hand, it still has a very gentle and warm way of picturing the French land-life, still to be encountered in some magical, rural corners of France.

This is one of the best statements I ever heard on the fallacy of the work and matriarchy: funny, intelligent, amused, sagacious. It shows as the rude force it's nothing compares to the ambush of the woman. Only the intervention of something simple and very primitive ( a little dog ) can break the secular slavery the one that is submitted the masculine species. The obedience to the woman and the undercover values (Who works is noble, God helps the hard workers, the buzzer and the ant, etc.) they overwhelm the happy life of the "big man", until the destination, taking pity of it, decides to give an aid to it. The fear of a subversion of the public order seems to have been the causer of the no propaganda the respect of this masterpiece. The field of sunflowers, in the end, suggests the return to the paradise and the conquest, finally, of the happiness.

This film follows the best tradition of the french comedy, managing outrageous, hilarious, unbelievable situations, yet without succumbing to cheap humour or to any kind of vulgarity.Always pleasant to view, even after 32 years!