Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris | movie | 1975 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hip | dG1fb1Z3TFpqMl9Mb2s

Transcript

00:00Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, please, for the most totally alive entertainment the

00:07screen has ever seen.

00:08I'm waiting for Madeleine in front of the picture show.

00:09Every night at half past ten.

00:10Madeleine, she loves us all.

00:11Madeleine's my Christmas tree.

00:12She's America to me.

00:13I know that she's too good for me.

00:14You bet she is.

00:15Who is this Jacques Brel, anyway?

00:27What does he know about sadness?

00:54Jacques Brel?

00:55He's sardonic.

00:56In the purest name of love, how I cheated every mistress.

01:00In the purest name of love, how I lied with each caress.

01:07Ah, Jacques Brel.

01:10He's dramatic.

01:11In the port of Amsterdam, where the sailors all meet, there's a sailor who eats only fish

01:22heads and tails.

01:24In the port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who drinks and he drinks and he drinks.

01:39He drinks once again, he drinks to the health of the whores of Amsterdam, who have promised

01:40their love to a thousand other men.

01:41Jacques Brel is nostalgic.

01:42It was the time when the roses could sing, it was the time of the silent movie.

01:46There was my grandfather.

01:49was my grandmother. He was a young soldier and she was so much bolder. He had no brain, neither did she.

02:00He lived in sin deliciously. Now they pray for my virginity. If I could be for only an hour,

02:09if I could be for an hour every day, if I could be for just one little hour. Jacques Vrel is funny and

02:18cute, cute, cute in a stupid-ass way. Jacques Vrel presents love. Oh won't you come to me,

02:27the girl that I will marry, who will she be? The girl who'll marry me, marry me, marry me.

02:40Jacques Vrel presents lust and

02:48lust. Yes, Jacques Vrel is alive and well and living on film. As the Boston Herald American

03:02says, Vrel's music triumphs. With a child's toy, a lover's longing, a castle in the air.

03:09With Ellie Stone, Mort Schumann, Joe Maskell, and Jacques Vrel himself. Jacques Vrel is alive and

03:16well and living in Paris. The next in a series of five great films from great plays.