La maison de campagne

During the "trente glorieuses", that is to say the French thirty-tears boom after WW2, the Parisian's dream ,particularly in the sixties ,was to own a house in the country ;it was before the hippiesque return to nature of the seventies,and it essentially concerned the upper middle class ,nay the bourgeois one. It was then part of the current climate. The family in the movie has a maid at home, which was not that much frequent at the time.

Jean Girault was par excellence the director of the heavy-handed comedie à la française ; between two installments of his De Funès's gendarmes saga , he made this harmless comedy ; Jean Richard and Danielle Darrieux were seasoned thespians even though they had seen better days before ; the really funny moments are few and far between ,despite their unquestionable talent:Denise Grey and André Luguet as ruined aristocrats ,the 32 visits before buying the house of their dreams , the good friend (Maria Pacôme) as a good example of "givers of advice don't pay the price" .....