Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Fanfan La Tulipe: The Criterion Collection (1952) Rating: Starring: Gina Lollobrigida, Marcel Herrand, Gerard Philipe Director: Christian-Jaque Category: Foreign, Comedy, War Studio: Criterion Subtitles: English Length: 99 mins     Legendary French star Gerard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in Christian-Jaque's devil-may-care romantic action-comedy. In eighteenth-century France, Fanfan joins King Louis XV's army to avoid a forced marriage to a local lass. And thus begins an adventure that sees Fanfan getting himself out of close scrapes and into tight squeezes with Gina Lollobrigida's impostor fortune teller, Adeline, on his way to fighting in the Seven Years' War. Filled to the brim with dazzling stunts and randy innuendo, Fanfan la Tulipe, which won the best director prize at Cannes and was a smash hit upon its initial release, remains one of France's all-time most beloved films.