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Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées

Original title: Remontons les Champs-Élysées
  • 19381938
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 40m
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6.6/10
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Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
  • Comedy
  • Drama
Let Guitry take you down cause he's going to...Elysées Fields .Let Guitry take you down cause he's going to...Elysées Fields .Let Guitry take you down cause he's going to...Elysées Fields .
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
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  • Directors
    • Sacha Guitry
    • Robert Bibal
  • Writer
    • Sacha Guitry
  • Stars
    • Sacha Guitry
    • Lucien Baroux
    • Jean Périer
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Sacha Guitry
    • Robert Bibal
  • Writer
    • Sacha Guitry
  • Stars
    • Sacha Guitry
    • Lucien Baroux
    • Jean Périer
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    • 5User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    Raymonde Allain and Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Sacha Guitry and Mila Parély in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Sacha Guitry and Jean Périer in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Geneviève Guitry and Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Jeanne Boitel and Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Lucien Baroux, Sacha Guitry, and Lisette Lanvin in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Lucien Baroux and Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Sacha Guitry in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)
    Jeanne Boitel in Let's Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)

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    Sacha Guitry
    Sacha Guitry
    • Le professeur et Louis XVas Le professeur et Louis XV
    Lucien Baroux
    Lucien Baroux
    • Le marquis de Chauvelinas Le marquis de Chauvelin
    Jean Périer
    • Choiseulas Choiseul
    Roger Bourdin
    • Le chanteur des Ambassadeursas Le chanteur des Ambassadeurs
    Robert Pizani
    Robert Pizani
    • Richard Wagner et Offenbachas Richard Wagner et Offenbach
    Jean Coquelin
    • L'apothicaireas L'apothicaire
    Émile Drain
    • Napoléon premieras Napoléon premier
    Georges Morton
    • Lebonas Lebon
    • (as Morton)
    Jean Davy
    • Ludovic et Jean-Louisas Ludovic et Jean-Louis
    René Fauchois
    • Maratas Marat
    Jacqueline Delubac
    Jacqueline Delubac
    • Floraas Flora
    Germaine Dermoz
    Germaine Dermoz
    • Marie de Médicisas Marie de Médicis
    Josseline Gaël
    Josseline Gaël
    • Léoneas Léone
    Jeanne Boitel
    • Madame de Pompadouras Madame de Pompadour
    Jane Marken
    Jane Marken
    • La mère de Louisetteas La mère de Louisette
    • (as Jeanne Marken)
    Mila Parély
    • La servante de Maratas La servante de Marat…
    Lisette Lanvin
    Lisette Lanvin
    • Louisetteas Louisette
    Georges Lemaire
    • Le pionas Le pion
    • Directors
      • Sacha Guitry
      • Robert Bibal
    • Writer
      • Sacha Guitry
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    10/10
    Things past in the style of things to come
    After years of hearing many cinema buffs here in France putting Guitry down for the filmed-theater aspect of his first films and finding some of these films hard to sit through myself, I came across a quote from Mae West that Guitry's "Roman d'un tricheur" was one of her favorite films. So I decided to keep trying.

    "Roman" was more inventive than the previous films, as if Guitry had taken his contemporaries' criticism to heart, but a bit predictable for 21st century expectations. Yet it was fascinating to see Guitry falling in love with the means of expression that cinema had to offer him after he had lambasted the medium when talkies first came out.

    This exploration continued in "Les perles de la couronne" and now reach their pinnacle in "Remontons les Champs Elysées," truly his most beautiful black and white film. The framework of a teacher telling students about his fore-bearers through the evolution of Paris' most famous street foreshadows the tone of Cocteau's future personal interventions in some of his best films. The fact that Guitry the actor is a teacher here justifies his talkativeness, and perhaps this frees Guitry the director to glide, sweep and whirl the camera around the lovingly created sets-- at some point the viewer wonders if Ophuls had something to do with the filming. Jump cuts are employed with the same elegance that would highlight Goddard's work at the end of the century. All of this to serve a comic and dramatic structure where humanity outweighs a kind of patriotism that never degenerates into chauvinism. This is thanks to Guitry's affectionate criticism of the foibles of those who inhabit his country and create its evolution. One of his best films and one of the best films of all time.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 5, 1939 (Denmark)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Champs-Elysees
    • Filming locations
      • Studios Pathé-Cinema, Joinville-le-pont, Val-de-Marne, France
    • Production company
      • Cinéas
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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