Name: Foyer perdu
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1952-06-13
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 4.3
Cast: Gaby Morlay, Aimé Clariond, Mary Marquet

The precedent user has a point there : the first third is the most appealing : the godfather/father scene ,full of insinuations ("you've got a grandfather's face")is much fun to watch .But the rest is downright dull ,repetitive ,heavy-handed and the form will remind you of the first years of the talkies when they used to film plays ; it could really be played on stage and it would not make a big difference .

As for the ideology ,it harks back to the Occupation days when the regime de Vichy used to glorify the family .

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