Starring: Fortunato Arena Director: Michel Deville Format: Anamorphic PAL Released: 28 Jun 2004 RRP: £19.99 Average Rating:
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Good looking but forgettable- By: Trevor Willsmer, 13 Mar 2007 On a Volé la Joconde/The Mona Lisa is Missing is a forgettable French period comedy from 1966 that sees George Chakiris' gentleman thief posing as a picture framer's apprentice to steal the Mona Lisa while romancing Marina Vlady, a chambermaid in a hotel where alll the staff dress as the painting (luckily they don't hire men). For about half an hour it's pleasant enough despite Carlo Rustichelli's horribly over the top `comedy' scoring (alll slide whistles & trombones), but once the painting is lifted & the pair find themselves pursued through the French countryside by two thieves after the painting themselves, a couple of inept cops & a lovelorn magician as the painting passes from person to person it gets increasingly tedious with the realization that director Michel Delville & his co-writers Nina Companeez & Ottavio Poggi think the situation is funny enough on its own not to need any jokes. They're wrong.
Although there's some print damage on the master used, C'est la Vie's UK DVD boasts a decent 2.35:1 widescreen transfer with English subtitles.
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