That Man From Rio

Released Jun 8, 1964

1h 54m

Comedy

Drama

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86%

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14 Reviews

79%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

French military man Adrien Dufourquet (Jean-Paul Belmondo) gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnes (Françoise Dorléac). But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan (Jean Servais), has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnes pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

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J.H. Fenwick

Sight & Sound

A loving pastiche of every chase film one can remember.

Mar 31, 2020

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

It's fun, in an imperialist, colonialist, patronizing, exotic-marginalized-foreigners way.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 27, 2014

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

We don't think of Belmondo as an action star per se, but that's what he is here, smirking like Steve McQueen and managing to keep a cigarette clamped between his lips even when he's navigating hairpin turns on a motorbike.

Rated: 3.5/4

Aug 26, 2014

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Judith Crist

New York Herald Tribune

The chase goes on and on, the joke is prolonged beyond its juiciest and That Man from Rio passes its peak of fun not too long after the first of its two hours.

Aug 15, 2022

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Surprisingly, the film works quite well on its own terms, starring the bemused New Wave star Belmondo, and it's interesting to note how Spielberg quite heavily plundered several of de Broca's set pieces for eventual re-use.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 28, 2020

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Dwight MacDonald

Esquire Magazine

A witty, fast-moving spoof of the international crime melodrama.

Aug 13, 2019

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Jithin K

An entertaining adventure comedy for the first hour and a dragging spoof for the second hour. It has a crazy sense of humour and a filmmaking style that wants so much to happen onscreen, although it doesn't care about having good writing. Cinematography must be one of the best aspects of this movie that does so many clever things which help us get involved in the action more and forget about the flaws. I've only seen a few French films from the 60s and from what I read this isn't part of the French New Wave. So, are all the French filmmakers of the 60s perverted and misogynistic with a twisted sense of humour? Jean-Paul Belmondo runs a lot in this movie, enough to cover all the running Tom Cruise does in all the Mission Impossible films. That got to be one of the saving graces of this movie though. Even though I say a lot of negatives, I can't deny a lot of the technical feats this movie pulled. And that ending, deconstructing treasure hunt movies that many years ago, makes it a pretty good movie despite all of its sometimes frustrating flaws.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/09/23

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Audience Member

Essentially an everyman-who-is-as-good-as-James-Bond caper as Belmondo shows a remarkable versatility at doing all of his stunts and superb playboy chemistry with Dorleac who shows great playfulness and humor despite the damsel in distress nature of the role

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Audience Member

I love this movie with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorleac (the sister of Catherine Deneuve). Humor and action.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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Audience Member

Like Jame Bond meets Mister Bean in a good way. Shallow and very silly but also very fun.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Relatively funny movie with some great moments, but still not quite making it. I especially liked the very last minutes (trying to tell this without spoiling anything) when the couple are running from explosions, the cause of them and that family by the roadside. I think that was by far the best part of the movie and had stood time really well. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the later American movie Romancing the Stone (1984) had got its inspiration from this movie. They had so many similarities between.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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s r

A bit far fetched, but a fun action comedy. A bit too long.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Philippe de Broca

Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Pvt. Adrien Dufourquet

Françoise Dorléac

Agnès Villermosa

Jean Servais

Prof. Norbert Catalan

Adolfo Celi

Señor Mario De Castro

Simone Renant

Lola, Cabaret Singer

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Synopsis

French military man Adrien Dufourquet (Jean-Paul Belmondo) gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnes (Françoise Dorléac). But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan (Jean Servais), has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnes pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

Director: Philippe de Broca
Screenwriter: Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca, Ariane Mnouchkine, Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Distributor: Lopert Pictures Corp., United Artists
Production Co: Dear Film Produzione, Les Productions Artistes Associés, Les Films Ariane
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 8, 1964, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 18, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $35.1K
Runtime: 1h 54m
Sound Mix: Mono

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