If you loved The Gendarme in New York, try The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
What they share
Both films are directed by Jean Girault, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Gendarme in New York, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space is
Here we have a film that perhaps only France could produce. A bumbling police inspector must protect the residents of St. Tropez from humanoid aliens with a taste for petroleum. The aliens are detectable by the garbage-can sound they make when touched. It's a French farce, and it knows it.