This Jean-Pierre Mocky mixes mischief, stinginess and cheapness around three characters. The first is Jean Poiret in the role of the money-hungry villain who uses two accountants in a company to transport money for his own benefit. These two accountants are a Marseillais played by Fernandel and an Alsatian (Heinz Rühmann, hilarious) in very different styles of course, who will have to transport this money together through the city of Bordeaux to the bank, and then by train to Paris. All this is based on misunderstandings and the fact that what is planned by the characters does not go as planned, which allows them to rub shoulders with and meet zany characters that we see regularly in Jean-Pierre Mocky. For example here Jean Carmet in the role of a blind priest and driver. It is also the team of binoculars to whom Jean Poiret must give his money, iconoclastic group whose role we do not understand well, but it does not matter, because they bring the exoticism that we expect from a film by Jean-Pierre Mocky. And it is also the extraordinary scene with their Parisian colleagues, where Darry Cowl's interpretation is brilliant, with Jacques Legras as a complement in the sequence. In the galleries of characters a little unusual, but typical of the Mockian bestiary, there is the president general director interpreted by a woman (Simone Duhart) behaving as a man with the resulting mise en abyme.
This is only slightly subversive, but all in all rather nice because there is a know-how of Jean-Pierre Mocky and his team around all this and also thanks to the fact that he has very good actors who therefore perfectly embody this gallery of oddballs.
This is only slightly subversive, but all in all rather nice because there is a know-how of Jean-Pierre Mocky and his team around all this and also thanks to the fact that he has very good actors who therefore perfectly embody this gallery of oddballs.