Girl's Apartment (1963)
Tibere (Sami Frey) is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling operation in this light comedy. One woman is a snob, the second is adventurous, and Melanie (Mylene Demongeot) is sentimental about love. When Melanie and Tibere fall for each other, he is inspired to give up his life of crime for the woman he loves.
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Excellent but underrated film
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
A light comedy by Michel Deville written ,as such was often the case in the first phase of his career,in collaboration with Nina Companeez.The cast and credits is an update of Sacha Guitry's style:as the movie begins in an airport,it takes the form of airport announcements .A handsome young gold trafficker uses air hostesses to help him with his crooked plans ;he meets three gorgeous girls who share the same apartment between two flights ,although one of them has resigned .Sami Frey is engaging as a happy -go-Lucky "villain" ;Sylva Koscina was the queen of the sword and sandal and one of the hotties of the sixties (remember "deadlier than the male" );Mylène Demongeot was one of the most promising newcomers of the late fifties ("Les Sorcières De Salem")but the producers wanted her to become another Bardot and her career suffered accordingly afterward;I mistook the third one ,German Renate Ewert ,for English Dawn Adams .The male supporting cast includes efficient Daniel Ceccaldi and bland Jean-François Calvé.All in all ,this is an entertaining little comedy ,which remained unsung next to Deville's most famous works ("Benjamin" "Raphael Ou Le Débauché" "Le Mouton Enragé")A note about Renate Ewert who plays "Lolotte" ;she mysteriously died three years after the movie,age 33 : alcohol,drugs ,anorexia-she weighed 34kg (74 lb)-?.Unable to deal with the tragedy,her parents poisoned themselves shortly afterward.