The Fat and the Lean (1961)

Original title

Le gros et le maigre

Directed by

Roman Polanski

Genre

comedy film, silent film, musical film

Country

France

Runtime

15 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent comedy short about a thin man who is bossed around by a fat man. They perform a repetitive routine of chores and punishments that becomes a strange game of power and submission.

slapstickplayfulwhimsicalmusicalabsurdlightheartedmischievousretro

What happens

The Fat and the Lean (French: Le Gros et le maigre) is a short silent, comic film written and directed by Roman Polanski in 1961. Polanski shot this short film just after graduating from The National Film School in Łódź in 1959; it was made in France and was Polanski's last film before the international breakthrough of his 1962 debut feature, Knife in the Water. The Fat and the Lean features the music of Krzysztof Komeda, who composed the scores for all but one of the director's films between Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) and Rosemary's Baby (1968). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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