A LA MODE feels like an intact throwback to the bad old commercial days of French cinema--the cloying '50s--which rivaled America's concurrent obsession with the likes of Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Gidget, and Tammy.
Fausto Barbarico (Ken Higelin) is an orphan as a result of tragic biking accident which befell his parents in 1947. He spends his childhood in an orphanage in Paris, where he befriends Raymond (Francois Hauteserre), a jovial slob who introduces him to smoking and stripping naked just for the
hell of it. At the proper age, Raymond is apprenticed to a barber, while Fausto finds himself under the tutelage of Mietek Breslauer (Jean Yanne), a tailor in th...
Released:
1994
Rated:
R
Length:
82 mins