Discover the Poster “A Monkey in Winter”, a film by Henri Verneuil. Immerse yourself in the nostalgic and poetic atmosphere of this timeless dramatic comedy. With Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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Description of this Poster A Monkey in Winter
A Monkey in Winter is a French comedy-drama film directed in 1962 by Henri Verneuil, based on the novel A Monkey in Winter by Antoine Blondin. It tells the story of the meeting and separation of two men who have broken with life, one an old hotelier who dreams of escapades in pre-war China and the other a young advertising executive who imagines himself to be the embodiment of Hispanic masculinity.
Albert Quentin runs with his wife Suzanne, devoted but unimaginative, a small hotel in a small town on the Normandy coast. After an exciting career as a sailor in the French Navy, during which he served in China, he became bored and started drinking. In June 1944, he was out partying with his neighbor Esnault, who ran a bar, when the Allies launched a massive air raid. Finding his way back to his cellar, he comforted his terrified wife and promised to stop drinking if their hotel remained intact. After fifteen years of sobriety and feeling more bored than ever, a nervous young man checked into the hotel one quiet winter night. He was Gabriel Fouquet, who went to Esnault’s bar and, after calling his wife, who had left him to go to Madrid, got completely drunk. Albert, who got up to bring him in from the street and put him to bed, befriended the stranger solitary. Each has a dream world in which they retreat from reality: Albert relives and embellishes his exotic adventures in China, while Gabriel sees himself as the embodiment of Spanish machismo, dancing flamenco and fighting bulls.
In the morning, Gabriel buys a sweater for a ten-year-old girl from an eccentric shopkeeper named Landru and goes to the convent where his daughter Marie is a boarder. Too nervous to see her, he runs away when called. Albert and Suzanne, each in their own way, try to be nice to him, but he continues to drink and cause trouble. One fateful night, Albert succumbs, and the two get drunk. They visit a brothel that Albert hasn’t entered for fifteen years, but only to drink, start a fight in Esnault’s bar, and persuade the shopkeeper Landru to light his stash of fireworks on the beach. When they force their way into the convent to remove Marie, they are confronted by the wheelchair-bound nun, who pushes them away and tells them that Marie will be released at ten o’clock in the morning. Gabriel then retrieves his daughter, and the two are joined on the Paris train by Albert, who has given up alcohol and is going to pay his respects at his father’s grave inland. Albert tells Marie how, in China, lost monkeys slip into towns during the winter, and once there are enough of them, the people organize a train to bring them all back to their native forests. He gets off at Lisieux, to face his own long winter.