Mangeclous

Mangeclous is a film of Moshé Mizrahi left in 1988 according to the novel éponyme Albert Cohen.

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Intrigue

The Valorous ones are a clan of modest and colourful Jews living in Céphalonie, in the Ionian Islands in the Thirties. Mangeclous is the manipulator and the profiteur of the clan, being claimed lawyer actually hardly public writer. Attracted in Geneva by the promise of a treasure that their made gleam a mysterious mail, they take the way of Switzerland as a large crew carried out by the uncle Saltiel who has a certain authority on the family. They are joined in Marseilles by Scipion, a Marseillais old army mate of Mangeclous. Arrived at Geneva after the rocambolesques peregrinations of a voyage very dépaysant for them, they still do not include/understand which the author of the mysterious mail is not other than the prince of the clan, the Solal brilliance which is senior official at the Company of the Nations. Mangeclous, the untiring smooth talker of the clan tries several operations in order to adapt the promised treasure but Saltiel thwarts its plans and the valorous ones end up meeting Solal in its luxurious office. The treasure does not exist or rather it is simply in the reunification of the clan and the abundant meal which Solal offers to him and which, for Mangeclous, is enough to justify the voyage.

Characteristics of film

The work of Albert Cohen is famous very difficult to carry to the screen. The psychological subtlety of the characters and the human reports/ratios make the matter of its works but their intrigue, complicated but neither realistic nor decisive is put up badly to the linear format and the precision which requires the modern cinema. Moreover Albert Cohen formally wished that its work not be carried to the screen. Moshe Mizrahi nevertheless attacked Mangeclous, which is most colors of the novels of the cycle of Valorous with an obvious success. The dazzling distribution gives to Valorous relief and an attaching subtlety which returns this film very original and very funny mild nutter. The realizer included/understood well and succeeded in putting in images car-derision, the despair and the originality of the work of Albert Cohen.

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