Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hip | dG1fb1Z3TFpqMl9Mb2s
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, please, for the most totally alive entertainment the
00:07screen has ever seen.
00:08I'm waiting for Madeleine in front of the picture show.
00:09Every night at half past ten.
00:10Madeleine, she loves us all.
00:11Madeleine's my Christmas tree.
00:12She's America to me.
00:13I know that she's too good for me.
00:14You bet she is.
00:15Who is this Jacques Brel, anyway?
00:27What does he know about sadness?
00:54Jacques Brel?
00:55He's sardonic.
00:56In the purest name of love, how I cheated every mistress.
01:00In the purest name of love, how I lied with each caress.
01:07Ah, Jacques Brel.
01:10He's dramatic.
01:11In the port of Amsterdam, where the sailors all meet, there's a sailor who eats only fish
01:22heads and tails.
01:24In the port of Amsterdam, there's a sailor who drinks and he drinks and he drinks.
01:39He drinks once again, he drinks to the health of the whores of Amsterdam, who have promised
01:40their love to a thousand other men.
01:41Jacques Brel is nostalgic.
01:42It was the time when the roses could sing, it was the time of the silent movie.
01:46There was my grandfather.
01:49was my grandmother. He was a young soldier and she was so much bolder. He had no brain, neither did she.
02:00He lived in sin deliciously. Now they pray for my virginity. If I could be for only an hour,
02:09if I could be for an hour every day, if I could be for just one little hour. Jacques Vrel is funny and
02:18cute, cute, cute in a stupid-ass way. Jacques Vrel presents love. Oh won't you come to me,
02:27the girl that I will marry, who will she be? The girl who'll marry me, marry me, marry me.
02:40Jacques Vrel presents lust and
02:48lust. Yes, Jacques Vrel is alive and well and living on film. As the Boston Herald American
03:02says, Vrel's music triumphs. With a child's toy, a lover's longing, a castle in the air.
03:09With Ellie Stone, Mort Schumann, Joe Maskell, and Jacques Vrel himself. Jacques Vrel is alive and
03:16well and living in Paris. The next in a series of five great films from great plays.