Special Program (1) Filmmaker in Focus: Pierre ÉTAIX

A millionaire who lost his fortune in the Great Depression tours the countryside with a circus stunt rider and her 6-year-old son as a means of making a living. Before long the son becomes a huge success in the circus world and buys the mansion where his father had lived…. A melancholy masterpiece full of homages to silent film comedy and the circus.

A happily married, ordinary man who serves as the manager of his father-in-law’s factory lives a well-off, but monotonous existence. One day, a young, female secretary comes to his workplace and the smitten man’s life is turned upside down…. A comedy masterpiece in which the throes of a developing romance in a man’s fantasy is a joy to watch. ÉTAIX’s first color feature film.