Easy Down There! [Doucement les basses] [Take it Easy] ** (1971, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 8434

Husband and wife team (though by the time of this movie they were already divorced) Alain and Nathalie Delon star in director Jacques Deray’s rather disappointing 1971 attempt at a comedy Easy Down There! [Doucement les basses] [Take it Easy] about a priest and his former wife.

Alain Delon stars as the priest Simon Médieu, who lives in seclusion on the Brittany coast but finds that his stormy past catches up with him when a forgotten figure – the wife he thought was dead – makes an unwelcome reappearance.

It is an interesting enough situation but the script by Jacques Deray and Pascal Jardin (story and screenplay) is uneasy at best, and not especially amusing. It is hard to accept Alain Delon as a priest, and the script is not ideal material for Alain and Nathalie Delon, who are slightly struggling, though Paul Meurisse has the right comedic touch as the Bishop.

Also in the cast are Julien Guiomar, Paul Préboist, André Bollet, Serge Davri, Carlo Nell, Marc Cauvy, Georges Ass and Philippe Castelli.

Easy Down There! [Doucement les basses] [Take it Easy] is directed by Jacques Deray, runs 90 minutes, is made by Adel Productions and Medusa Distribuzione, is released by Cinema International Corporation (1971) (France) and Medusa Distribuzione (1971) (Italy), is written by Jacques Deray and Pascal Jardin (story and screenplay), is shot in Eastmancolor by Claude Bolling, is produced by Alain Delon and is scored by Jean-Jacques Tarbès.

Anthony Delon was born on September 30, 1964.

Alain Delon and Nathalie Delon (Francine Canovas) were married from 1964 to 1969, and had one child, the actor Anthony Delon, born on 30 September 1964.

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