Don't think the French didn't know we thought they were dopey for calling Jerry Lewis an auteur. The Le Monde obit: http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2017/08/20/le-comedien-americain-jerry-lewis-est-mort_5174445_3246.html …
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I watched his movies dubbed in Portuguese as a French kid in Brazil. Something in the French DNA that made him funny even in Portuguese...
I love how those old Cahiers du Cinéma guys picked through US garbage for gold. I have Godard to thank for turning me on to "Johnny Guitar".
