Take It From the Top
Synopsis
The whole household revolves around the Annie (Annie Girardot), the mother, but no one helps her do anything. Without her support, her husband could not spend so much time being preoccupied with his job at a company which makes everything from sunglasses to kitchen appliances (not very good ones, as it happens). Nor could her teenaged children manage both their schoolwork and their adolescent moods. One day, she explodes. She sits herself down and writes the sexy novel she has been mulling over in her head for some time. It gets published and becomes a best-seller. This, on top of her rebellion, threatens to end her marriage.
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Director (1)
Actors (54)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Renn Productions, Les Films Montfort
- Co-production : Société Française de Production (SFP)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Claude Berri
- Screenwriters : Nicole De Buron, Mathilde Péan, Pierre Sisser
- Director of Photography : Étienne Becker
- Music Composer : Marie-Paule Belle
- Assistant Director : Philippe Schwartz
- Editor : Jacques Witta
- Sound Recordist : René Magnol
- Costume designer : Paulette Breil
- Associate Producer : Sylvio Tabet
- Line Producer : Pierre Grunstein
- Voice : Georges De Caunes
- Assistant Operators : Arthur Cloquet, Bernard Noisette
- Camera Operator : Jacques Dorot
- Production Manager : Paul Maigret
- Continuity supervisor : Laurence Duval-Annaud
- Foley artist : Jean-Pierre Lelong
- Sound Mixer : Maurice Gilbert
- Still Photographer : Georges Pierre
- Location managers : Yvon Crenn, Philippe Desmoulins
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Themes : Family
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 1978
- French release : 09/08/1978
- Runtime : 1 h 37 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 48765
- Visa issue date : 10/07/1978
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Audio format : Mono
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Behind its lighthearted humor and its (more than necessary) share of slapstick scenes, "Vas-y maman" is actually a relatively serious critique on patriarchal societies at a time where the woman's liberation movement was at its peak. The film (directed by a woman) shows how numerous women are alienated when they stay home, take care of the kids and the house... to eventually awake, one morning, totally depressed about their life choices. The film tells the story of such a woman; a mother who can't stand it anymore and goes back to work, start to serve tv dinners to her family and generally has a ball retrieving her youth by being her own boss once again... The comedy comes from the conflicts emerging between the members of this family as Annie Girardot's character defies them to put her back where she was before. Though it suffers from obvious shortcomings in the screenplay department, "Vas-y maman" is a mildly funny but interesting film about a very serious subject matter and, as a metaphor for the legitimacy of feminism, is certainly worth seeing.
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