Duck Soup (The McCarey Way)
Duck Soup
USA 1933 | Leo McCarey | vostFR | 66' | digital | Cast : Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Louis Calhern
Le farfelu Rufus T. Firefly est nommé chef d’État de la république de Freedonia et fait la guerre à son intrigant voisin, la Sylvanie…
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« The Marx Brothers' best movie and, not coincidentally, the one with the strongest director – Leo McCarey, who had the flexibility to give the boys their head and the discipline to make some formal sense of it. » (Chicago Reader)
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« A breathtakingly funny and imaginative spoof of war movie heroics. Totally irreverent towards patriotism, religion, diplomacy, courtroom justice, and anything even vaguely respectable… A masterpiece. » (Time Out Film Guide)
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