The Suitor (Le Soupirant). Pierre Étaix, 1962.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion 2-Blu-ray set #655 Pierre Étaix, released 2013. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 84 minutes.
Edition screened: Included in Criterion 2-Blu-ray set #655 Pierre Étaix, released 2013. French language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 84 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence toward animals.
Like the short film Rupture (1961), The Suitor establishes Étaix’s gift for good visual humor that also incorporates novel, often hilarious, use of audio effects against an otherwise almost silent soundtrack.