fanfan la tulipe

Legendary French star Gerard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque's devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Release Date: January 1
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Adventures with Gina

A promiscuous peasant, Fanfan (Gérard Philipe), was caught in a haystack with a local girl and now has to pay the ultimate price; you guessed it, a forced marriage. To the rescue, a fortuneteller (Gina Lollobrigida) predicts that the military will lead him to fame and glory, eventually allowing him to marry the king’s daughter. Fanfan, realizing he has been flimflammed, decides to make the predictions come true. Meanwhile, the Seven-Year War goes on as planned until fate takes its turn. Together we watch the swashbuckling comedy. Yes, production may come true, but it looks more likely that Fanfan la Tulipe and his adopted father are about to swing from the tree of justice. Can anybody save them? The version I watched was the Criterion black-and-white edition. It included one version in French with English subtitles and another in English with dubbing. You might notice that the subtitles don’t exactly match the dubbed version. This edition also features a short history of Gérard Philipe and some clips from the colorized version. I have not seen it yet, but there is a 2003 version with Penélope Cruz.