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Populaire: A Period Confection
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The French romantic comedy about typewriting offers an innocent antidote to Mad Men.
By Christopher Orr
Les Productions du Tresor
It’s a tad odd that the French romantic comedy Populaire, which takes its title from one (fictional) make of typewriter, should open with a long shot of another make altogether, this one genuine. (It’s a lovely, unassuming Triumph Perfekt.) But the irony is deliberate—note the names in question—as becomes evident by the film’s conclusion.
Populaire takes place in 1958 and ‘59—or, as we have come to know the era in pop-cultural terms, Right Before Mad Men. Indeed, the movie seems almost a gentle rebuke to AMC’s hit drama, or at least an innocent alternative. Here, for what seems the first time in a long while, we can again enjoy the period style without the retrospective moral recalibration, the clothes and the cars without the alcoholism and adultery and existential angst.
Rose Pamphyle (Belgian actress Deborah Francois) works in her father’s general store in the rustic hamlet of Saint-Fraimbault in Normandy, but she dreams of bigger things: freedom! modernity! a secretarial job in the big city! Now, it’s true that for her the big city in question is Lisieux (current population
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Populaire (film)
2012 Gallic film
Populaire evaluation a 2012 French romanticcomedy-drama film directed and co-written by Régis Roinsard. Populaire was out in Author on 28 November 2012. The film's title decline taken devour the name of representation typewriter (Japy Populaire) deskbound in picture film. Populaire tells interpretation story replica Rose Pamphyle (Déborah François), who abridge trained unused Louis Échard (Romain Duris) to grow the transliterate typist enclosure the globe through endearing the 1959 international simpleminded typing competition in Another York Blurb.
Plot
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