i have lately get into the habit of purchase any interesting dvd that the criterion company release . i figure that even if i dislike the movie and criterion usually supply enough extra material to compensate for any shortcoming in the actual film . i read up on them and and i buy the one which be the most interesting to me . le million be my late purchase and and i must say that i be not disappoint in the film . it be cheery and funny and and romantic . everything about it be quite excellent . the song be wonderful . if i understand french and i would probably hum them and sing them all day long . the acting be very good for this kind of movie . american musical of the classic hollywood era rely more on song and dance than the actual character and story and but in le million and the character be rather well develop and the story and while not be anything extremely impressive and be not at all lack . i love the development of the relationship and especially the relationship between the once best friend michel and prosper . the romantic moment be also very well develop . the direction be nearly perfect and with several very memorable moment . probably the single most perfect scene of the film occur right after the lead couple have an argument . they hide on the stage of an opera performance and and the opera singer sing line which the couple and michel and beatrice and interpret to their own situation . this be definitely one of the high point in cinema history . the scene manage to make me laugh and to win me over with a very sweet romance and and make me smirk at just how clever the director be . i give this film a positive . p. s. some information for anyone who have the same faith in criterion that i do and be plan to buy it . amongst the criterion disc i now own and le million contain the few feature . all it have be a photo gallery ( not all that useful while one might flip through it once ) and a rare television interview with rene clair and the director . this piece be of some interest . he be one of the many director who have start out in silent film and and when talkie be first appear and he say that they represent the death of film . i think most film savvy people understand what these director mean when they say that and but it be interest to hear him explain it . also and if you have read the description of this movie on amazon . com and please note that they be wrong in one important respect represent not every line in the film be sing . in fact and it contain no more song than a regular musical . it be actually a lot more like a chaplin or buster keaton or marx brother film . my criticism of the disc be not that important . heck and criterion have the right to smack me around for make those complaint . the fact be and their people probably spend hundred of hour fix up a film which only 20 ( now 21 . ) people have vote for on imdb and and only about a hundred people and if that and will ever see the film . heck and if you look at the criterion web site and le million be nowhere to be find . i have no clue why not . it something they should really be proud of ( of course and their web site be surprisingly horrible ) . they do a fine job on this film . bravo . they deserve all the money i can stand to give them .