There are plenty of piquant absurdities.
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02/09/06
Bizarre Bizarre (1937)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 7 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Synopsis: A farce of intrigue, murder, romance and doublecrosses. [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Director: Marcel Carne
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...an acerbic screwball satire aimed ostensibly at the English mania for detective fiction, though other targets too slow to get out of the way are the Anglican Church, Scotland Yard, and English elite society's preoccupation with reputation.
04/06/06
Comic riffs on the corrupt values in a class system and the malleability of individual identity provide the backbone of the film’s ideas and its best examples of humour.
03/02/04
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Marcel Carne's direction is much too innately stodgy for this kind of free-form exercise, but it's enough, really, for him to simply train his camera on his enthusiastic cast.
07/29/03
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