Le Magnifique (1973)

Directed by

Philippe de Broca

Genre

action film, parody film, romantic comedy

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

16

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 386 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling writer of spy novels daydreams that he is a glamorous superspy. In these fantasies he casts his attractive neighbor as his love interest and his publisher as the villain. His imagined love triangle starts to mirror events in his real life.

playfulfast-pacedslapstickromanticwhimsicallightheartedself-awareescapist

What happens

Le Magnifique (literally The Magnificent; also known as The Man from Acapulco) is a 1973 spy comedy, a French/Italian international co-production, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset and Vittorio Caprioli that was directed by Philippe de Broca. Le Magnifique is a slapstick spoof of B-series spy films and novels and the men who write them. In the film, a financially struggling writer of spy novels imagines himself as an idealised superspy. In his imagination, he casts his female neighbor as the spy's paramour, and his publisher as an Albanian villain. The imagination is soon reflected in the formation of a love triangle in the writer's life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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