Man About Town

This light, frothy farce marked the return of Chevalier to the screen after seven years and was Clair's first French movie after a dozen years. Although the picture took some awards (Grand Prize at Brussels and the Critic's Circle Award at Locarno), it wasn't all that good and surely fell far below the standard of Clair's best works. Shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris, MAN ABOUT TOWN uses Chevalier's narration to bridge story gaps, with clunky results. It's 1906 in Paris. Derrien, a naive country girl, comes to town to find her missing father, an actor. In order to locate him she asks for help from 60ish producer-director Chevalier, who had once courted her mot...