Le Chêne d'Allouville

1981
4.2| 1h30m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 18 March 1981 Released
Producted By: Fichier Electronique du Spectacle
Country: France
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The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deputy Charles Crétois was keen on this project, which allowed him to continue the speculation he had been indulging in on certain lands. He is supported by the mayor of Allouville to whom he promised the Legion of Honor. But the whole village protests: they want to save the oak tree.

Genre

Comedy

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Director

Serge Pénard

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Fichier Electronique du Spectacle

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Le Chêne d'Allouville Audience Reviews

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Joanna Mccarty Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
dbdumonteil This is the second effort by Serge Pénard ;the first one was hopeless:his " Tendrement Vache" told a cock-and-bull story:Henri Duchemin has just lost his good wife,Mary,and he is inconsolable ;after watching a TV broadcast about reincarnation,he does believe that the dead woman is reincarnated as a cow...You read well!"Le Chêne D'Allouville " (alternate title : "Ils Sont Fous Ces Normands" ,a nod to Asterix )gets off to a most auspicious start: the 1300-year-old oak tree ,the village's pride ,is in jeopardy: its root would have to be cut ,to widen the road ,because of the wheel- and- deal of an unscrupulous greedy (and gay) Député and a mayor at his beck and call ,because he has promised him the Legion D'Honneur.The treatment is awful,the script is appalling and the actors ham it up shamelessly ;the mayor/vicar rivalry may remind you of a poor man's Don Camillo and Peppone (Duvivier's fifties comedy);all the characters from the politically correct daughter to the journalist are cardboard;the love story is abysmal (and enhanced ,so to speak, by a syrupy score),and an unfriendly look at gays only makes the matter worse.The inhabitants/riot police fights are repetitive and sound like a very bad spoof on those movies-with-demonstration which thrived in the wake of the events of May 68.This venerable tree did deserve better than this coarse slapstick.