La disparition d'Onésime

⭐ Featured Review

"Among the short subject series that Jean Durand directed for Gaumont were the ones starring Ernest Bourbon as Onésime. Like the other, they were rough slapstick, but relied much more heavily on elaborate camera trickery and elaborately constructed sets that fell to pieces at inopportune moments. Like other slapstick stars of the era, Onésime was not so much a character as an trademark who might find himself in any situation. It was the fact that obvious camera trickery was used for the gags that typified him more than anything else. He might find himself a clockmaker moving at variable speed ..."