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A rousing, good humored costumer on ribald 18th-century France. (Review of Original Release)Full Review

Variety

That the actor performs so effortlessly, so casually, is the real magic here. You forget about technique, and, best of all, you forget you're watching a black-and-white subtitled French movie from the dusty past.Full Review

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Cahiers-savvy cinephiles will recognize Fanfan as the type of handsome prestige production that the French New Wave overthrew in the early '60s, but this example of the "cinma de qualit" is hardly a musty artifact, with its compact editing, its breezy and mischievous tone, and, in a country not yet a decade removed from the Nazi occupation, its acrid anti-militarism, clear from the ash-dry narration of the opening battle sequences onward.Full Review

Jessica Winter

Village Voice

A rousing, good humored costumer on ribald 18th-century France. (Review of Original Release)Full Review

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Variety

There's nothing profound going on here, and this pristine example of cinma de qualit must later have driven ardent French New Wavers round the bend. But as a breezy populist comedy, more farce than satire, it remains infectious, and the case made for love and sex over tyranny and death takes us back to an age when romantic leads were less self-serious and more willing to double up as buffoons.Full Review

Ella Taylor

L.A. Weekly

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