The Escape

Another great film by Gérard Oury who, under the guise of comic genius, tells 1968s France its home truths.

From the bourgeois to the "spoilt little rich kids", passing by the new rich, the rural and working world and the civil servants, everyone gets more of the same treatment with all of us laughing till our sides ached.

Pierre Richard as an idealistic lawyer, Victor Lanoux as a convict adventurer who is ultimately gentler than tough, Raymond Bussières as the father of the idealistic lawyer who keeps the values of the French resistance alive, as well as the rest of the cast, are all exceptional in their roles, whom they embody to perfection, giving the film its heart and soul.

All these elements are mixed with a tenderness that makes this "Escape" one more major work in the filmography of the master of French comedy.