1, 2, 3, Sun

104 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrenchBudget$9 millionBox office$3.1 million^[1]

1, 2, 3, Sun (French: Un, deux, trois, soleil) is a 1993 French surrealist black comedy film directed by Bertrand Blier.^[2] The title of the film corresponds to the French name for the "Statues" children's game.

Plot

In an impoverished district of Marseille, full of tower blocks populated by people from many parts of Africa and elsewhere, Victorine is growing up with an inadequate mother and an alcoholic father, who keeps giving her half-brothers and half-sisters. She loves him nonetheless, wishing that he would give up drinking and stay home. Well aware of what puberty entails, she is being serially initiated in an abandoned car by a gang of unemployed youths when she cries out that the first time should have some affection and romance. In which case, they say, you need Petit Paul. Treating her tenderly, he becomes her first love but his career as a burglar is cut short when he is shot by an enraged householder. After exposing herself to a solitary man on a train, he declares that he has fallen in love with her. This is Maurice, whose love never wavers and who marries her.

Cast

• Anouk Grinberg as Victorine
• Myriam Boyer as Daniela Laspada (the mother)
• Olivier Martinez as Petit ("Little") Paul
• Jean-Michel Noirey [fr] as Maurice Le Garrec
• Denise Chalem [fr] as school teacher
• Jean-Pierre Marielle as the lonely man
• Éva Darlan as Jeanine
• Claude Brasseur as the bad guy
• Irène Tassembedo [fr] as Gladys Boigny
• Patrick Bouchitey as Marcel (the barkeeper)
• Marcello Mastroianni as Constantin Laspada (the father)
• Charles Schneider (actor) [fr] as Sergeant Boigny

References

External links

• 1, 2, 3, Sun at IMDb