Trivia / A Room in Town

• Acclaimed Flop: This film was highly acclaimed, but came out at the same time as Ace of Aces, a box office juggernaut, and flopped. It got to the point where 23 French critics gathered to publish an article in Telerama magazine in which they panned Ace of Aces, accusing it of being "engineered for success" and of "stealing tickets" to A Room in Town. Jean-Paul Belmondo, who was absolutely no stranger to auteur drama films (having gained fame with the French New Wave) answered to them that he didn't accuse James Bond of stealing his movie tickets when Stavisky underperformed against The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974.

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