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Goupi mains rouges (["Red-Handed" Goupi is a character and the red hands are literal descriptors not a metaphor; an American title for the movie is " It Happened at the Inn"] 1943, directed by Jacques Becker, written by Pierre Véry, 3.8 stars) is a (dark) comedy, with a dollop of romance to go with the jealousy of a displaced suitor, with touches of a murder mystery or two. Although made during the Nazi occupation of France, the movie thoroughly subverts the mythologization (by French fascists as by their German and Italian equivalent) of the countryside as the homeland of virtues.
The urbane Parisian, Eugene Goupi (Georges Rollin), summoned to meet his father and his father's brothers, a nattily-dressed Parisian is the innocent compared to the wily and resentful relatives he had never before met. Despite incessant internal squabbling, when confronted by the state (in the form of a policeman), the warring Goupis come together to present a united front of denial. Indeed, they are a more effective gang than the one in Becker's later (and greater) Casque d'or.
The country folk are far more concerned with the emergence of a new calf than the arrival of the son of the owner of the inn, and what he finds in the deserted house sends him fleeing again (having already fled the hut of the uncle who picked him up from the train station).
There is a famous scene (a clip of which I had seen before) of "Tonkin" (a former infantryman in French Indochina played by Robert Le Vigan) is treed (whether also freed is open to interpretation).
Perhaps for its rural locale as much as for the sinister doings in the countryside, With Friends Like Harry. I guess the two movies are also about finding out who may be trusted. There is some twisted humor in "With Friends Like Harry," but that movie verges on being a horror movie, whereas the Goupis are more like the eccentrics in "Cold Comfort Farm."
I saw "Goupi" in a series, "French Cinema Under the Occupation" curated by director Bertrand Tavenier, whose 2002 movie "Safe Conduct" portrays French film-makers during the Occupation. According to Tavenier, "'Groupi' subverts the theme of return to the land—one dear to the Vichy regime." "Groupi" is an ensemble piece, like Becker's last movie, Le Trou, but unlike the two other Becker movies available on DVD. Tavenier praised the "splendid camera work [of Pierre Montazel] that is never too formal." There are some formal tableaux, but they are not held long; there is lots of cutting within every scene.
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