"Le gros et le maigre" or "The Fat and the Lean" is a French black-and-white film from 55 years ago. It is among the early works of filmmaker Roman Polanski, but not among his first, even if he was not even 30 years old when he made this one. There is no dialogue in here, just music, so you don't need to understand French to watch this one. Polanski also appears as an actor in here, namely as the lean. The guy who plays the fat guy disappeared quickly from making films and is probably not alive anymore today. But Polanski is and he is way into his 80s having led a most successful and controversial life. As for this short film here, it was somewhat fun to see Polanski so effortlessly make a fool of himself while he was in control all the time being the man who made this movie. But this is really not enough in terms of the plot, not even for such a short film. Maybe it would have been fine at 15 minutes. I do not recommend the watch.
Review of Le gros et le maigre
