Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Jan 27, 1975

1h 38m

★ 4.3

Overview

Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.

Genres

Drama

Music

Production Companies

The American Film Theatre

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Cast

Self

Jacques Brel

Lady With Shopping Bag

Elly Stone

Marine

Joe Masiell

Taxi Driver

Mort Shuman

Annick Berger

Moni Yakim

Bernard Lafontaine

France Lombard

Sophie Héroux

Nico Sirakos

Jean Schianno

René Quivrin

Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

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