L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune

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Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve in L'événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la Lune (1973)

When a male driving school owner goes to see his doctor with complaints of feeling run down, he is pronounced four months pregnant. When the diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist, the resul... Read allWhen a male driving school owner goes to see his doctor with complaints of feeling run down, he is pronounced four months pregnant. When the diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist, the result is an international media frenzy.When a male driving school owner goes to see his doctor with complaints of feeling run down, he is pronounced four months pregnant. When the diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist, the result is an international media frenzy.

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Trivia
When this film was made, Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni were a couple in real life and had just had a daughter, they having broken up a year later in 1974 when said daughter was two years old. Chiara Mastroianni, that daughter, has stated this film is the first of her parents' four films together during the time of their union that she ever watched.

Quotes
Conseiller: Does he still believe in the tooth fairy?
Irène de Fontenoy: Yes. The tooth fairy, Santa, all that stuff.
Conseiller: I think brainwashing them like that is just ridiculous.
Clarisse de Saint-Clair, une cliente du salon: I agree. Filling kids' heads with stories about fairies, Santa, and God will turn them into nothing but half-wits.
Conseiller: I agree about the fairies and Santa, but not God. God exists, my dear.
Clarisse de Saint-Clair, une cliente du salon: That's a good one! You hear that Irène?
Irène de Fontenoy: I believe in it all. Everything astonishes me.
Clarisse de Saint-Clair, une cliente du salon: You're that gullible?
Irène de Fontenoy: I'm still a little girl inside.

Alternate versions
The movie has two very different endings. In the original French version, Marco was diagnosed with an hysterical pregnancy which saddens both him and Irène. As they finally get married Irène begins to feel sick and joyously tells Marco that she is pregnant. In the Italian ending, Marco realizes that he was misdiagnosed and suddenly goes into labor just before his wedding, though the baby is not shown. Afterwards, men everywhere suddenly begin having pregnancy symptoms.

Connections
Featured in Jacquot de Nantes (1991)

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L'Événement le plus Important depuis que l'Homme a Marché sur la Lune
Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics by Jacques Demy
Performed by Mireille Mathieu

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5/10

Odd Film, Not Great

What is this obsession we all seem to share about men getting pregnant? Be it the French, Italians, Americans, or Japanese, we as human all seem to have this same idea. An impossibility, it is the stuff of dreams, weird wacked-out movies, and cold-sweat nightmares.

Maybe it's because in this day and age women can do everything men can do, but men can never experience the miracle of birthing a child. I don't know. But I do know that this film is just okay at it's very best moments, and overall it's no more than boring and frustrating. There's no big payoff or much else good for that matter. Do not recommend.