That was the time of Charleston and Prohibition. That was the time before the Great Crash of some Black Friday or something like that they called the Great Depression. That was the story of a rather slightly dumb hypochondriac rich man with no heirs who wanted to give his money to the family, and descendants, of the girl he loved and who refused him. He got the strange notion of going and visiting the place in upstate New York and the descendants of his old sweetheart. And to test them really he manages to get the family 100,000 dollars. And he saw the damage at once. The wife and mother gets completely lunatic about being rich and she blows a couple of fuses in no time and they are bankrupt in even less than no time. Now what about the boyfriend of the eldest daughter? What about the poor pure mongrel of a dog of the family? What about the little younger daughter? And what about the father who is a happy conscientious pharmacist? And what about life that is happy with love and does not need all that money to have a swell time? What about the local judge and local businessman and local people of any note in that jungle that upstate New York is? Everything and everyone flat on their noses except the few who were not dumb enough to believe in Father Christmas in the middle of the summer. A charming film about money and nothing else, though there are so many things you can think of beside money. New cars, new dresses, new houses, new records and new everything of any kind and sort. And what is that all but just plain nothing when compared with the fair pleasure of achieving something with your own brains and your own hands and your own flesh and bones. It is so beautiful to owe nothing to no one and to have exactly what we want because we earned it. That's what they call sustainability today, and I can tell you there are quite a few people who are unsustainable in their minds. "Let the rich pay for us and spoon feed us with the money they made and we did not make." Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Review of Has Anybody Seen My Gal
