Salad by the Roots (1964)

Original title

Des pissenlits par la racine

Directed by

Georges Lautner

Genre

comedy film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 17m

Rated

16

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedy set in the Parisian underworld. A man gets mixed up with gangsters and a missing lottery ticket.

lightheartedwittyfast-pacedplayfulquirkybreezycomedicsharp

What happens

Salad by the Roots (French: Des pissenlits par la racine, literally (Eating) dandelions by the roots which is the French idiom for Pushing up the daisies) is a Franco-Italian comedy directed by Georges Lautner and released in 1964, a year after his success with Les Tontons flingueurs, which was also set in the Parisian underworld. It benefits from music by Georges Delerue and dialogue by Michel Audiard, among whose legendary lines is Plus t'as de pognon, moins t'as de principes. L'oseille c'est la gangrène de l'âme. (The more loot you've got, the fewer your principles. Lolly is the gangrene of the soul). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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