- Le Magnifique
Infobox Film | name = Le Magnifique
image_size = 175px
director =Philippe de Broca
producer =Georges Dancigers
Alexandre Mnouchkine
writer = Philippe de Broca
Vittorio Caprioli
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
starring =Jean-Paul Belmondo Jacqueline Bisset
music =
cinematography =René Mathelin
editing =
distributor = Cine III
released = 1973
runtime = 95 minutes
language = French
budget =
imdb_id = 0070354"Le Magnifique" (literally "The Magnificent") is a French movie released in 1973, starring
Jacqueline Bisset andJean-Paul Belmondo ."Le Magnifique" is a slapstick spoof of B-series espionage movies and novels.ynopsis
François Marlin (Belmondo) is a
Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels, and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renownedsuperspy Bob St Clair. Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a sociology student who is interested in the novels, but in the writer's imagination, she is Tatiana, his paramour. Her clear fascination with Bob St Clair, an irrealistic and idealized hero, begins to bother Marlin, who in real life is the very opposite of his creation: a clumsy, frustrated man who barely makes enough money to get by. As a result Marlin begins to sabotage his own hero.Le Magnifique is also a common nickname for NHL great Mario Lemieux.UK Release
In the
United Kingdom , Le Magnifique was titled "How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent", and was released as theB-Movie to the filmDoc Savage in 1975.External links
*imdb title|id=0070354|title=Le Magnifique
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