Clerambard/Alexandre Le Bienheureux

The two film scores composed by Vladimir Cosma on this record are the very first in a long career of writing for films, and proved to be the beginning of a faithful and fruitful collaboration with Yves Robert a very famous French director. As well as the title song interpreted by Isabelle Aubret, there are unusual choices of instruments (cromorne, bass ocarina) illustrating the composer unique research for instrumental sounds.

Clérambard is a 1969 French comedy film directed by Yves Robert and starring Philippe Noiret, Dany Carrel and Lise Delamare.[1] It is based on the 1950 play (fr) by Marcel Aymé. An impoverished aristocrat goes to desperate lengths to find something to eat.

Very Happy Alexander (French: Alexandre le bienheureux, "Blissful Alexander") is a 1968 French comedy film, directed by Yves Robert, starring Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert and Françoise Brion. This was comic actor Pierre Richard's second appearance[citation needed] on film, playing a secondary role toward the end of the plot.

Philippe Noiret plays a henpecked childless farmer that lives oppressed by his authoritarian and materialistic wife, being the only worker in his farm. Whenever he attempts to take a small rest, indulge in any distraction, or simply falls asleep out of exhaustion, there she is chasing him to move on. When she and her elderly parents are killed in a car accident, he decides that the time has come to take it easy and enjoy life a little, sets all his livestock free, and then practically disappears. The only clue that he is still alive is his dog, who periodically goes shopping to the nearby town with a basket in its mouth. Concerns about Alexander's fate are the center of the town's gossip. After several attempts, a delegation sent by the citizens finds he has retired - to his bed. This creates no small social upheaval in this working-class small French town where hard work is regarded as a virtue, and hence his attitude is viewed as a scandal and a menace.

Composer: Vladimir Cosma

Number of Discs: 1

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