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Title: Mess From a Masterpiece
Review: This is surely the worst movie ever re-made from an original masterpiece. The characters act like human embodiments of cartoon figures. Even the famous "hat scene" turned from a superb, amusing set piece into a bad clown act.The Marseilles scenery is magnificent, yet the whole is horribly stage-bound. Scores of super-close pictures of Horst Buccholz's face (in unmatching sizes) but not much of Leslie Caron's gracefulness and beauty. Maurice Chevalier is restrained and touching, but everybody else is in a high school farce. YOU MUST WATCH THE ORIGINAL: The Marseilles trilogy from the early 30s--better, funnier, more touching, a work of art.
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