Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch. It won an Oscar in 1963 for Best Short Subject.
Pierre Étaix
Le mari
Georges Loriot
Laurence Lignières
La femme
Nono Zammit
Lucien Frégis
Ican Paillaud
Robert Blome
Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch. It won an Oscar in 1963 for Best Short Subject.
With his wife (Laurence Lignières) having prepared an anniversary luncheon at home, husband (Pierre Étaix) is out in Paris hoping to get her some nice gifts before returning for dejeuner. What he hasn’t quite factored in, though, is that the old cobbled streets of the city centre are jam packed with other motorists vying for that last parking space or just generally sitting in endless queues of traffic edging forward inch by inch. As she becomes peckish at home and begins to nibble, he makes little progress. Soon, well Mme. has tucked into the vin rouge and he is racing home after having been through half a dozen adventures and more than the one car before he finally arrives bearing a particularly bedraggled sunflower. This is one of these “if it can go wrong it will” style comedies but it never ends up slapstick. The rapidly paced choreography is centred around the perfect manoeuvring of some pretty dinky old motor cars, a poor soul just trying to complete his shave and our increasingly delayed, impatient (and hungry) gent finding everything landing butter side down. There’s very little dialogue, it is all left to the photography and to some typically French mannerisms and facial expressions and I really did find I both enjoyed this and wanted a salami sandwich afterwards, too. Good fun.
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