SEVEN CHANCES

Seven chances is a succession of hilarious situations, far from the classic silent comedy but closer to the Tati of thirty years later, culminating in the famous scene where the protagonist is pursued by a crowd of his suitors, on whom he throws a deluge of stones that were threatening him at the start, in the manner of a video game. Other moments of anthology: the cloakroom attendant who looks down on Jimmy’s seventh attempt to find a wife; the entry into the shop of a clockmaker who wants to know the time, a scene that also ends in an unexpected failure; his jacket getting stuck in the latch of the gate (and we must not believe that Jimmy simply takes off his jacket to get out of trouble); the girl’s dog who comes between the two grooms. We laugh and wonder from beginning to end.