Product Details

• Actors: Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras, Nino Castelnuovo
• Directors: Edouard Molinaro
• Format: DVD, NTSC, Color, Widescreen
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Run Time: 80 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ILDLZ2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #393,097 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you loved Jacques Brel you must see this film., November 27, 1998

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[e-mail] (Providence, RI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Pain in the A.. [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Here's your chance to see Jacques Brel in one of his rare film appearences--and he's wonderful. Brel-lovers will know that he never quite succeed as an actor, although his every song tells a story. His admirers were simply not ready to accept a move from the concert hall to the big screen, and the "rejection" (coupled with his illness) prompted Brel to withdraw from public life and move to Tahiti. This film is a light comedy in which Brel's character, saved from suicide by a would-be assassin in a neighboring hotel room, attaches himself to the savior/killer and proceeds to bungle the assassin's plan. It's great slapstick fun--Lino Ventura's pure comic evil is tempered by Brel's endearing ineptitude. I've been thinking about this movie for twenty years and never dreamed I'd find a video copy--in the original French with English subtitles--online!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining ---, April 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: A Pain in the A.. [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I enjoyed watching Jacque Brel portray a lonely shirt salesman. After failing to commit suicide over his lost love, Brel attaches himself to a hired gunman becoming a PAIN IN THE A.. The events that happen become a comedy. The gunman doesn't want the police involved in his business or Brels and the two get connected in outrageous circumstances. A very entertaining film.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars far from a pain in the a.., June 2, 2000

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Mr. B. Murphy (Ormskirk, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Pain in the A.. [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I first saw this film years ago before I was aware of the influence that Jacques Brel had on the world of music and film."Buddy Buddy" was sheer brilliance with Messrs. Matthau & Lemmon (as always),and it is even better to know that Billy Wilder took his influence from Brel's performance in this film. I only wish for the time when I mention the name Jacques Brel, that people will stop saying "Who?" and appreciate the brilliance of his talent.