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A Monkey In Winter
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Discover the Poster A Monkey in Winter", film by Henri Verneuil. Immerse yourself in the nostalgic and poetic atmosphere of this timeless dramatic comedy. With Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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Description of this A Monkey In Winter Poster
A Monkey in Winter is a French comedy-drama film directed in 1962 by Henri Verneuil, based on the novel A Monkey in Winter by Antoine Blondin. It tells of the meeting and separation of two men at odds with life, one an old hotelier who dreams of escapades in pre-war China and the other a young advertising man who imagines himself to be the embodiment of masculinity. Hispanic.
Albert Quentin runs a small hotel with his devoted but unimaginative wife Suzanne in a small town on the Normandy coast. After an exciting career as a sailor in the French navy, during which he served in China, he became bored and started drinking. In June 1944, he was partying with his neighbor Esnault, who ran a bar, when the Allies launched a gigantic air raid. Finding his way back to his cellar, he comforts his terrified wife and promises her to stop drinking if their hotel remains intact. After fifteen years of sobriety and more bored than ever, a nervous young man checks into a hotel one peaceful winter night. It is about Gabriel Fouquet, who goes to Esnault's bar and, after phoning his wife who left him to go to Madrid, gets completely drunk. Albert, who gets up to bring him back from the street and put him to bed, befriends the lonely stranger. Each has a dream world into which they retreat from reality: Albert relives and embellishes his exotic adventures in China, while Gabriel sees himself as the embodiment of Spanish machismo, dancing flamenco and fighting bulls.
In the morning, Gabriel buys a sweater for a ten-year-old girl from an eccentric merchant named Landru and goes to the convent where his daughter Marie is a boarder. Too nervous to see her, he runs away when called. Albert and Suzanne, each in their own way, try to be nice to him, but he continues to drink and cause trouble. One fateful night, Albert succumbs and the two drink themselves to death. They visit a brothel where Albert has not entered for fifteen years, but only to drink, start a fight in Esnault's bar and persuade the shopkeeper Landru to light his stock of fireworks on the beach. When they force their way into the convent to kidnap Mary, they are confronted by the wheelchair-bound nun, who pushes them away and tells them that Mary will be released at ten in the morning. Gabriel then picks up his daughter and the two are joined on the Paris train by Albert, who has given up alcohol and goes to pay his respects at his father's grave inland. Albert tells Marie how in China, lost monkeys slip into towns during the winter, and once there are enough of them, people organize a train to take them all back to their native forests. He goes down to Lisieux, to face his own long winter.
