Film Category
First Seen:
Sun 1st Nov 2015
Catalogued: 31st Oct 2025
Synopsis
Bodou a tramp tries to kill himself by jumping of a bridge but is saved by a petty bourgoesie bookseller. Boudu turns out to be exactly the sort of half crazed irritating but charming guest we have all encountered. After intersupting the shopkeepers affair with the below stairs maid he ends up in the arms of the mistress and winning the lottery and marrying the maid only to disappear into the river at the wedding party leaving the shopkeeper, the wife and the maid in a menage a trois
Reviews
by Roger on Sun 1st Nov 2015 Classic Film Club Bristol
Review of "Boudu sauvé des eaux"
Full review
Billed as a comedy, but more a slightly poetic social satire. A restored B&W print with subtitles (sound somewhat muddy anyway). Absorbing and not quite as off the wall absurdist as The Lobster seen 2 days earlier.