King Of Hearts

• Harold and Maude
• Being There
• Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)
• Babette's Feast
• Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring (MGM World Films)
• Where's Poppa?
• The Red Balloon (Released by Janus Films, in association with the Criterion Collection)
• The Lives of Others
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Did they overspend on the costumes and underspend on the story. [Believable]. Will opposing soldiers fire at each other at unbelievably close range. Discovered by the Germans, he flees into a building for refuge and safety; it is the local insane asylum.

[One scene shows armored cars; did they exist at that time]. German soldiers are planting explosives to destroy the advancing British soldiers when they occupy a French city. Or what looks like normal people are really insane underneath. The film runs on, some scenes are comic and remind me of the clowns in a circus. This film is certainly unusual for its time. will be sent in to scout the town and defuse the bombs - by himself.

The result of the German withdrawal is the inmates can wander freely into the deserted town and select new clothes from the abandoned homes. "Oh dear, who is it now.". Will the freed lunatics return to their asylum. The British are warned, they will not march into town.

Comedy is in part cultural, and attitudes change. Were any animals hurt in making this film. Perhaps the humor is in suggesting the clothes make the man or woman.

[This slow-paced action doesn't seem too funny to me]. I can't believe this film was successful among viewers. Instead Private Plumpick [some pun].

Will a fireworks display have unintended consequences. Where are the alienists. The townspeople hurriedly evacuate the town.

"October 1918" is the date for this story. Is it an example of "French Farce".

Watch it with someone you love. Near perfect. Full of deep insights about sex, love, war, madness and society all in a charming hilarious wrapper. Funny, profound. In French, English and German with subtitles.

Saw this movie back when I was in college, so it brings back memories. Better than I remembered.

Can nerve gas and rat-infested trenches with bloated, rotting bodies be sane. And so we have our premise. Such is the theme of this anti-war comedy directed by France's Philippe de Broca, starring the English actor Alan Bates wearing a jaunty crown, and featuring a young and delectable Genevieve Bujold in a yellow tutu. This the kind of movie that Monty Python fans would adore, and I suspect it had some effect on the directorial style of Terry Gilliam. To be my true love's beau. The townspeople learn of the bomb and desert the town, leaving the inmates at the sanitarium and the circus animals to fend for themselves. But theirs is such a pleasant insanity that we in the audience are persuaded to ask what is sanity and who needs it. Inside as cover he joins a game of cards with two of the inmates.

When the Jerrys retreat to the countryside to await the explosion, and while the English watch for the return of one of Plumpick's pigeons with news that the bomb has been defused, the inmates stream out of the asylum. But hold on there, that last sentence better describes some other anti-war movies from the time of The Great War, perhaps "All Quiet on the Western Front" or Kubrick's "Paths of Glory." Here the tone is light, the treatment burlesque, the plot absurdly amusing. Such a craven whore. Anyway I wrote a little ditty to anticipate the ending (BEWARE SPOILER).:.

The Jerrys confront the inmates who identify themselves in absurd ways. A virgin who believes she's a prostitute. It's set to go off at the stroke of midnight. So when Plumpick arrives he finds only a detachment of Germans who spot him and chase him into the asylum. Bates plays Private Charles Plumpick (in Scottish kilt) a keeper of messenger pigeons who has "volunteered" to find and defuse a bomb left in Marville by the retreating Jerrys. I will to the asylum go.

Her madame is also insane, or so the townsmen of Marville believe. They take over the town, dressing up in various costumes: this one becomes the mayor, another the priest, and little Mademoiselle "Poppy" (Bujold) awaits her first trick. I'll have no more of war. She's insane. The madness of war makes the members of the asylum seem sane. Plumpick, with some on the spot inspiration, calls himself "the king of hearts.".

King of Hearts is an endearing and deeply touching film. It poses the question, "Who's more crazy, delusional patients in a mental institution, or the people who promote and fight wars." An answer emerges from the chaos of this very funny and profound tale.