Happy New Year

Happy New Year (2024)

2024

Comedy / Romance

7.1 from 10 with total 31 votes

1973-04-13

115 minutes

Gangster with his accomplice prepares to take part in the \"first psychological hold-up in the history of crime\". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer who befriends the group. The driver and the antiques dealer fall in love. He is friendly but unrefined, she is cultivated and independent, but discovers that talking with Simon shows up her vanity, and she desires a simple and clean love. The hold-up which had been planned for a long time by the driver is shown to be more sophisticated than his methods of seduction.

Lino Ventura character Simon

Françoise Fabian character Françoise

Charles Gérard character Charlot

André Falcon character Jeweler

Lilo character Mrs Felix

Claude Mann character Claude

Frédéric de Pasquale character Henri, Parisian lover

Silvano Tranquilli character Italian lover

Gérard Sire character Prison director

Bettina Rheims character Nicole, young saleswoman

Georges Staquet character Police commissioner in Paris

Harry Walter character Inspector

Michel Bertay character Taxi driver

Michou character Michou

Mireille Mathieu character Mireille Mathieu

Élie Chouraqui character Michel Barbier (uncredited)

Rémy Julienne character Taxi driver (uncredited)

Anouk Aimée character Anne Gauthier (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean-Louis Trintignant character Jean-Louis Duroc (archive footage) (uncredited)