La Soupe aux choux

At the start of 1980s Louis De Funes was the most popular and successful comic of the French cinema. But he was also quite old and frail man, the fact he was quite aware of and which played important part in the last films of his career. Old age is a theme that dominates the plot of De Funes’ penultimate film, 1982 comedy *The Cabbage Soup*, directed by Jean Girault. The film is based on the novel by René Fallet whi…