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<title><![CDATA[Leçon de Charité...]]></title>
<link>http://yoosf.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/lecon-de-charite/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Quand on lit un peu l&#8217;actualité et qu&#8217;on aime se moquer de tout ce qui bouge, il faut pa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Quand on lit un peu l&#8217;actualité et qu&#8217;on aime se moquer de tout ce qui bouge, il faut parfois faire des sacrifices. Même si ces derniers vous mettent une grande claque à l&#8217;amour propre ou à l&#8217;hygiène intellectuelle, il faut surmonter sa fierté et les accomplir parce que l&#8217;on sait qu&#8217;il pourront vous faire passer un grand moment ou, au pire, une bonne tranche de rigolade. Dans la liste de ces sacrifices figure &#8220;Succomber au titre accrocheur d&#8217;un article paru dans un torchon&#8221; (juste entre &#8220;Se renseigner sur les résultats du PSG&#8221; et &#8220;Lire une tribune d&#8217;Arnaud Montebourg&#8221;). Là en l&#8217;occurrence, mon sacrifice a été de cliquer sur un lien vers Voici.fr intitulé<a href="http://www.voici.fr/potins-people/les-potins-du-jour/denis-l-ami-sdf-de-carla-bruni-sarkozy-330799#"> &#8220;Denis, l&#8217;ami SDF de Carla Bruni&#8221;</a>. Ben ouais, c&#8217;était trop tentant (et ne me menacez pas de flagellation, j&#8217;aime ça).</p>
<p>La femme du président a récemment accordé au magazine solidaire <a href="http://www.macadamjournal.com/">Macadam</a> un entretien où elle confie entretenir une relation amicale avec un SDF. <em>Voici</em>, en bons journalistes de terrain, sont allés rencontrer l&#8217;intéressé.</p>
<p>Que nous apprend cet article? Et bien que Carla la Douce n&#8217;est pas seulement une icône de beauté, une chanteuse d&#8217;exception, la femme d&#8217;un homme formidable et un modèle pour toute française digne de ce nom, mais qu&#8217;elle est aussi altruiste, proche du petit peuple et que du haut de ses talons de chez Robert Clergerie elle sait rester humble. Il nous prouve aussi que <em>Voici</em> en connait un rayon en léchage de Louboutins, bien que ça, même <a href="http://blog.pressebook.fr/sarkommentaire/files/2009/01/2577862242_a77743f148.jpg">le dernier des faux-culs</a> pourrait le reconnaitre (sur la photo là l&#8217;hypocrisie c&#8217;est de nous faire croire qu&#8217;il réfléchit. Vous voyez qu&#8217;il est fort?). Voyons ensemble les grandes lignes du scoop:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Assis sur un trottoir du XVIè arrondissement de Paris&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p><em><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">Bon, alors ça c&#8217;est le premier truc qui m&#8217;a fait marrer. Je suis provincial moi, j&#8217;ai jamais vécu à Paris (bien qu&#8217;il me soit arrivé d&#8217;y aller de temps en temps, faut pas déconner non plus). Et pour nous en province, ben y&#8217;a pas de clodos dans le XVIè, les gens les chassent à coup de balai en chantant<a href="http://chants.royalistes.free.fr/index.php?id=39"> &#8220;Ô Louis, Ô mon Roi&#8221;</a>. </span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">Après, selon une source qui m&#8217;est proche et qui est originaire de cet arrondissement, il s&#8217;avèrerait qu&#8217;on y trouve aussi des nécessiteux&#8230; Bon, ok. Mais je suis de mauvaise foi moi, donc je continue à me marrer en lisant ça et à m&#8217;imaginer qu&#8217;un clodo dans le XVIè, c&#8217;est juste un type qui ne porte pas un pull Zadig &#38; Voltaire. </span></em></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;"><em>&#8220;Denis, la cinquantaine aux yeux verts, fume tranquillement une Gitane brune. Les voisins le connaissent bien. « Dix ans que je suis là ! » raconte le garçon en prenant une petite rasade de vin rouge et en saluant les gens du quartier&#8221;</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">Un profil particulièrement original. <em>Voici</em></span><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;"> a aussi oublié de préciser qu&#8217;il avait un gros nez  rouge et se découpait des tranches de Justin Bridou en chantant &#8220;Ma Miette&#8221;. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;"><em>&#8220;<span style="font-style:normal;">«</span> Je la connais bien. Elle passe me voir de temps en temps et on discute musique, jamais de politique. On a les mêmes goûts musicaux. Elle m’a même proposé de chanter sur son album » raconte-t-il avec une voix grave, qui devient douce lorsqu’il se met à entonner une chanson triste.&#8221;</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p>Hmmm, intéressant&#8230; Donc en gros quand Carlita a envie de parler de musique, elle va voir Denis La Cloche. En même temps, ses interlocuteurs habituels étant Julien Clerc ou Didier Barbelivien, je comprends qu&#8217;elle puisse avoir envie de les troquer contre un clodo aviné. Et vu que les connaissances musicales de son mari doivent se limiter à Johnny ou Mireille Mathieu, il est normal que même elle en ai marre.</p>
<p>D&#8217;ailleurs, en grande philanthrope qu&#8217;elle est, elle lui aurait proposé de venir chanter sur son album&#8230; Là je dis &#8220;Mais que Fuck?&#8221;! Aux dernières nouvelles, les chants de clochard ça donne <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClAxeZnjG0g">ça</a>. Alors je dois m&#8217;être trompé d&#8217;album ou sous-estimer ce brave Denis, mais j&#8217;ai un peu de mal à me l&#8217;imaginer en featuring sur &#8220;l&#8217;Amoureuse&#8221; (bien que j&#8217;accepte la moindre chose qui puisse permettre de couvrir ces miaulements insupportables).</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8221; Elle m’a offert un MP3, mais je l’ai perdu…&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Oh ben ça c&#8217;est gentil tiens. Mais je me demande, c&#8217;est un IPod ou une vieille clé 512? J&#8217;espère aussi qu&#8217;il a une bonne autonomie ce MP3, parce que ce serait quand même une atteinte à la dignité de ce pauvre Denis que de l&#8217;obliger à changer sa petite pancarte de &#8220;Une pièce pour manger&#8221; à &#8220;Une pièce <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">pour manger</span> pour une Duracell&#8221;.</p>
<p>Car de la dignité, il a l&#8217;air d&#8217;en avoir. Il aurait en effet refusé de passer l&#8217;hiver à l&#8217;hôtel, au frais de la princesse (expression qui, pour le coup, ne pourrait pas être plus à propos). Non, Denis est un Hardcore Hobo. L&#8217;intérieur ce n&#8217;est pas pour lui, il brave le regard des gens et le froid de l&#8217;hiver. Qu&#8217;est-ce que vous croyiez? Que Carla allait choisir un clochard vendu comme pote? Non, c&#8217;était un test pour savoir si Denis était digne de monter sur la Croix (notons au passage l&#8217;habileté chez <em>Voici</em>, qui réussit à rappeler que Carla est chanteuse tout en béatifiant l&#8217;ami Denis).</p>
<blockquote><p><em>« Allez laisse-moi maintenant, je veux lire mon bouquin ».</em></p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align:left;">Ok mec, on s&#8217;en va. Mais attendez&#8230; Un clochard sympa, mélomane, lettré et qui ne veut pas de la charité des Milords? AAAAAAAAHHH! Mais Carla elle est pote avec <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archim%C3%A8de_le_clochard">Jean Gabin</a> en fait! Ouf me voilà rassuré, moi qui croyais que la gauche caviar partait aux chiottes&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><a href="http://yoosf.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/archi2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-73" title="Gabin Le Clochard" src="http://yoosf.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/archi2.jpg?w=205" alt="" width="205" height="300" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[La Bete Humaine (The Human Beast)]]></title>
<link>http://whatisfilmnoir.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/la-bete-humaine-the-human-beast/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[La Bete Humaine is a 1938 French film directed by Jean Renoir. Though many do not classify this film]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em>La Bete Humaine</em> is a 1938 French film directed by Jean Renoir. Though many do not classify this film as a noir, it does have all the characteristics of a quintessential film noir. In fact, it is one of the very first examples of film noir, though not self-consciously so.  It was made a full two years before what is regarded by many as the first ever American film noir <em>Stranger on the Third Floor</em>.</p>
<p><em>La Bete Humaine</em> is one of the many pairings of Renoir and the greatest French actor of all time, Jean Gabin. Gabin plays the protagonist, the troubled train engineer Jacques Lantier. The cast also includes the beautiful Simone Simon, playing Severine Roubaud, Colette Regis as Pecqueux and Fernand Ledoux as Roubaud. The film also gives you a glimpse of Renoir showing off his acting chops. Renoir plays Cabuche, the man falsely charged with the murder of Grandmorin, a rich and influential older gentleman.</p>
<p>There are very few opening sequences in the history of film that are as breathtaking and memorable as the train footage that opens <em>La Bete Humaine</em>. Both Renoir and Gabin were fascinated by trains, in fact, both got their train engineering license and Gabin operated real passenger trains as part of his research for the role. The train itself is the center piece of the entire film.  </p>
<p>The station chief Roubaud (Fernand Ledoux) is married to Severine (Simone Simon) and has to use the influence of her benefactor Grandmorin to get himself out of a jam, after he asserts is authority against a powerful official. Roubaud saves his job, but by doing so finds out that his wife had been a mistress of Grandmorin in the past and possibly still is. This he cannot take and forces Severine to come along to watch him kill Grandmorin.</p>
<p>Roubaud kills Grandmorin on a train and the only person to witness Roubaud and Severine come out of his car is Jacques (Gabin). Jacques is questioned by the police and denies seeing the couple because he is immediately smitten by the perceived innocence of Severine.</p>
<p>Jacques has problems of his own. He has these moods that come over him that he can’t control. Early on in the film, he almost strangles a childhood sweetheart of his before a train roaring by brings him out of the episode.</p>
<p>Jacques, of course, falls in love with Severine and she seems to fall in love with him, but it is hard to tell with her. She is too young and beautiful for her old and fat husband Roubaud who also has a jealousy complex and beats her when he feels the inclination.</p>
<p>Roubaud binds Severine to him through the murder of the Grandmorin, but the murder begins to wear on his conscious. He also knows that Severine is philandering with Jacques, but he seems to have lost interest in most everything, including her.</p>
<p>Jacques wants to run off with Severine, but she refuses, saying that Roubaud will turn her in and the only way out is if Jacques kills him. From this point on, the film only gets darker in spirit.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Elements of Noir</strong></p>
<p>This film could be used in the classroom as a prime example of a film noir. Chiaroscuro lighting is prevalent throughout the film. Renoir takes a back seat to no one when it comes to the use of key light, shadows and contrasting light patterns to instill mood in a scene. Along with the look of the film, the story and character elements that you find in a noir are in abundance in <em>La Bete Humaine</em>.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a femme fatale, look no further than Severine. She makes every guy she knows fall in love with her and then attempts to bend them to her murderess will. She says she is in love, but it is hard to believe, because all she really cares about is her own interests.</p>
<p>The characters in <em>La Bete Humaine</em> are regular working class people, but that is common in noirs, <em>Clash by Night</em> is one of many American examples of working-class people as protagonists in a noir.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>(Spoiler)</strong></p>
<p>Jacques is a tortured soul who runs through life without the ability to control his own fortunes. Fate controls him, as it does most noir protagonists. He can&#8217;t kill Roubaud, who he desperately wants to, and then cannot control himself and kills Severine. Finally, flying along the tracks on his beloved train, he can&#8217;t take the guilt, he can&#8217;t take not having Severine, he can&#8217;t take not having control over his life: he ends his life. It doesn’t get much more noir than that.   </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Recommendation </strong></p>
<p>If you can handle the subtitles, <em>La Bete Humaine</em> is a great film for those interested in any genre. For film noir fans, it is a great early example of the genre. While Renoir was not trying to make a film noir, there was no such term at the time, he made one of the greats. The film is beautifully shot; you can watch it with the sound off and have an enjoyable experience simply through the stark images.</p>
<p>Jean Gabin is as good as it gets and you will not be able to take your eyes away from Simone Simon. The character actors are excellent, especially Colette Regis. This is truly one of the great Renoir films, and he made many good ones.</p>
<p>If you have never seen a Renoir film or a Gabin film, you should give them a shot. Gabin was a wonderful actor and Renoir is one of the greatest filmmakers of any genre, time, and in any language. If you give his films a shot, you will find a whole new world of film that you never realized was out there waiting to be discovered.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Pépé le Moko [1937] ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dirigido por Julien Duvivier, 1937 Intérpretes: Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux]]></description>
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<strong><em>Dirigido por Julien Duvivier, 1937<br />
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Jean Gabin, Line Noro, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux, Gilbert Gil, Gabriel Gabrio, Saturnin Fabre, Charprin.</em></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Touchez pas au grisbi [1954] ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Le Quai des Brumes [El muelle de las brumas] 1938 ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Le film policier français vu par un Anglais]]></title>
<link>http://vupar.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/le-film-policier-francais-vu-par-les-anglais/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[De l’existentialisme et de l’ennui dans le cinéma français Pour Joe Queenan du Guardian, les films p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">De l’existentialisme et de l’ennui dans le cinéma français</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Pour Joe Queenan du Guardian, les films policiers français pêchent trop souvent par un excès d&#8217;intellectualisme&#8230; un peu creux</strong> : &#8220;Si une scène devait résumer l’essence du film policier à la française, on la trouverait à peu près au milieu du classique de 1954 <em>Touchez pas au grisbi</em>, de Jacques Becker. Serrée de près par la police, en disgrâce auprès de ses semblables des bas-fonds parisiens moins recommandables encore, le vieux virtuose du braquage joué par Jean Gabin décide de se mettre quelque temps au vert. S’installant dans un pied-à-terre secret qui prend la forme d’un appartement étonnamment chic, ce fumeur compulsif revêt un élégant pyjama sorti de nulle part avant de s’assurer que René Dary, son complice des mauvais coups, est lui aussi à l’aise dans ses vêtements d’intérieur. La leçon de cette scène est limpide : aussi précaire que soit la situation, aussi incessante que soit la traque de la police, un homme ne doit jamais renoncer à son confort, à commencer par son pyjama.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Les enjeux de qualité de vie sont une des marques récurrentes du film policier français, qui parle autant de <em>joie de vivre*</em> que de <em>joie de tuer*</em>. Qui d’autre qu’un Français pourrait faire un film (<em>Classe tous risques</em>, réalisé par Claude Sautet en 1960) sur un malfrat qui cherche un foyer comme il faut pour ses gamins alors que toutes les polices sont à ses trousses ? Qui d’autre qu’un Français pourrait faire un film (<em>Rien ne va plus</em>, Claude Chabrol, 1997) sur une artiste de l’escroquerie, incarnée par Isabelle Huppert, qui cherche à s’émanciper de son escroc de père en s’engageant dans une relation amoureuse avec un escroc plus jeune et plus séduisant, qu’elle a bien l’intention de plumer ?</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><!--more-->Les réalisateurs français ont toujours été obsédés par les malfrats, mais leurs films n’ont pas grand-chose à voir avec ceux qui se tournent aux Etats-Unis ou en Grande-Bretagne. Les films de gangsters américains sont palpitants, mais manquent souvent de profondeur ; les Britanniques, eux, mettent surtout en scène des petits voyous et manquent toujours de profondeur – ce qui explique que les cinéphiles anglophones trouvent souvent les gangsters cool, mais les voient rarement comme des exemples à suivre. Les Français, en revanche, aiment les gangsters philosophes et les films offrant une analyse de la société au sens large, comme si la société avait besoin de l’expertise des réalisateurs français.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Je ne dis pas que les films policiers français sont marqués par une authentique profondeur, mais c’est en tout cas ce qu’aiment à penser les réalisateurs français. Leurs films regorgent de répliques creuses du type <em>“les temps changent, pas les hommes”</em> – ou encore <em>“l’homme naît innocent, mais ne le reste pas”</em>. Le niveau a baissé depuis Voltaire, c’est certain. Le message classiquement délivré par un film policier français est que le plus minable des hors-la-loi est tenu par un code moral qui échappe à la compréhension du citoyen lambda respectueux de la loi – et qu’à leur manière les malfrats ont plus de principes que les policiers. C’est le thème de Mesrine (réalisé par Jean-François Richet, 2008), mais aussi du classique de 1937 de Julien Duvivier <em>Pépé le Moko</em>, d’<em>A bout de souffle</em> (1960) de Godard ou encore du très remarqué <em>Du rififi chez les hommes</em> de Jules Dassin, sorti en 1955. <br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">L’idée d’un code d’honneur dans la pègre est l’une de ces incongruités qui, depuis toujours, passent pour de la sagesse en France, où un fond d’anarchisme de pacotille cohabite bon an mal an avec des comportements profondément bourgeois à l’égard de toute chose. Dans les films français, les gangsters ont toujours un charme étrange, sont avant tout des gars épatants qui ont perdu le contrôle de leur personnalité quelque part en chemin.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Mais, comme le cinéma ne cesse de le démontrer, les films n’ont pas besoin d’être cohérents ni logiques pour être excellents. Surtout quand ils sont aussi beaux que <em>Le Cercle rouge</em> (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970), <em>Le Samouraï</em> (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967) ou Pépé le Moko. Abstraction faite de leurs absurdités philosophiques, les excellents films policiers français sont remarquablement nombreux.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">S’ils sont si bons, c’est parce que tout le monde veut en être : tous les réalisateurs – de François Truffaut à Claude Lelouch, en passant par Claude Sautet ou Claude Chabrol – se sont adonnés au genre au moins une fois, et les meilleurs films mettent en scène la fine fleur des acteurs français, de Jean Gabin à Jean-Paul Belmondo, en passant par Lino Ventura, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vincent Cassel, Yves Montand, Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau, Gérard Depardieu, plus tout une ribambelle d’acteurs magnifiques mais méconnus hors de France. Vous en avez donc pour votre argent, et cela vaut le coup.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Il serait fâcheux de conclure cet exposé sans parler de l’existentialisme et de l’ennui. Ces deux indissociables pierres angulaires de la civilisation française moderne jouent un rôle clé dans le succès de la version hexagonale de ce genre cinématographique. Avant même la théorisation de l’existentialisme, au début des années 1940, et avant même que l’ennui ne soit inventé et breveté par Jean-Paul Sartre, en 1944, les malfrats français étaient déjà souvent en proie au tourment et à un ennui profond. C’est l’ennui qui précipite <em>Pépé le Moko</em> vers son destin, lorsqu’il abandonne stupidement l’enceinte protectrice de la casbah pour vivre son amour pour une Parisienne aisée et sophistiquée. C’est l’ennui qui conduit au désastre l’étincelant mais effacé Delon, aussi bien dans <em>Le Cercle rouge</em> que dans <em>Le Samouraï</em>. L’ennui, encore, qui laisse Belmondo mort sur le pavé parisien à la fin d’<em>A bout de souffle</em>. Vivre chaque jour comme si c’était le dernier, mais le faire sans enthousiasme, tel est le cocktail de presque tous les films français que j’ai vus. Le seul film policier français dont je me souvienne dans lequel tout le monde semble déborder d’énergie est <em>La Balance</em>, récompensé par une avalanche de césars en 1983. Mais <em>La Balance</em> a été réalisé par Bob Swain – un Américain.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Joe Queenan &#8211; The Guardian &#8211; 27/08/09</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Illuminating La Grande Illusion]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>stephanie ogle</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[New in at Cinema Books: BFI Film Classics La Grande Illusion by Julian Jackson, $14.95 paper.  New a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>New in at Cinema Books: <strong>BFI Film Classics La Grande Illusion</strong> by Julian Jackson, $14.95 paper.  New analysis of Jean Renoir&#8217;s masterpiece. The unforgettable cast of Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio and Erich von Stroheim are one of the most powerful ensembles of all time. Finally the author offers his own answer to the mystery of the film&#8217;s title: what was the great illusion?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[“Il commissario Maigret”]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>cinemaleo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[1958: Maigret tend un piège di Jean Delannoy E’ il primo (e il migliore) dei tre Maigret che l’attor]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p align="center"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">1958: <strong><em>Maigret tend un piège</em></strong> di Jean Delannoy</span></p>
<p>E’ il primo (e il migliore) dei tre Maigret che l’attore francese ha interpretato (gli altri sono <em>Maigret e il caso Saint-Fiacre</em>, regia di Jean Delannoy del 1959; <em>Maigret e i gangsters</em>, regia di Gilles Grangier del 1963).</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://cinemaleo.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/maigret-locandina.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3389" title="maigret-locandina" src="http://cinemaleo.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/maigret-locandina.jpg?w=103" alt="maigret-locandina" width="103" height="150" /></a> <a href="http://cinemaleo.wordpress.com/giudiziocritico/"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1463" title="da vedere" src="http://cinemaleo.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/da-vedere.gif" alt="da vedere" width="117" height="136" /></a> <a href="http://www.ilgattonero.it/sito_gn_in_costr_i002334.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3390" title="maigret-poster" src="http://cinemaleo.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/maigret-poster.jpg?w=103" alt="maigret-poster" width="103" height="150" /></a></p>
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<p>Molti i Maigret sullo schermo (e sul teleschermo) ma sicuramente il più celebre e significativo è quello reso magistralmente dal grande <strong>Jean Gabin</strong>.<br />
<strong><em>Maigret tend un piège </em></strong>è un bellissimo film che non ha perso nulla del suo fascino. Clima e atmosfera resi perfettamente da una regia asciutta al massimo (come solo i francesi sanno fare) e che si avvale di un cast che fa scintille. <strong>Annie Girardot</strong> è, come al solito, superiore a ogni possibile lode, <strong>Jean Dessailly</strong> offre una performance da applauso in un ruolo dalle mille sfaccettature e tutt&#8217;altro che facile.<br />
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Da Simenon un bel giallo drammatico e intimista </em>(ilFarinotti).</p>
<p><em> J. Gabin è magistrale nell&#8217;aderire al personaggio. Bella atmosfera intimista, dialoghi efficaci di M. Audiard, una squadra affiatata di interpreti </em>(ilMorandini).</p>
<p><em>Jean Gabin, che prima della guerra aveva raggiunto una straordinaria notorietà&#8230; sembra ritrovare nella seconda metà degli anni Cinquanta, e proprio grazie a Simenon, una seconda giovinezza. Fra il 1956 e il 1960 interpreta ben sei film tratti da suoi romanzi…<br />
Gabin diventa così l&#8217;attore simenoniano per eccellenza, sia per il numero delle sue interpretazioni che per l&#8217;ampiezza dei registri </em>(Alberosito).</p>
<p><em>Gabin e Maigret si sovrappongono e si annullano reciprocamente, dando vita a un personaggio completamente reinventato </em>(Jacques Siclier).</p>
<p><em>Gabin-Maigret attraversa i film con il passo pesante e indolente del vecchio funzionario che ne ha viste talmente tante che nulla più può commuoverlo </em>(Jean de Baroncelli).</p>
<p><em>Gabin si è impadronito di Maigret come Bogart di Marlowe </em>(Manuel Vásquez Montalbán).</p>
<p><em>Non c&#8217;è niente di più godibile di un film di Gabin nei panni del commissario Maigret…<br />
il film non è invecchiato, lo stile di recitazione tiene il passo coi tempi, l&#8217;atmosfera d&#8217;altri tempi regala al film quel qualcosa in più che fa venir voglia di rivederlo. Gabin è Maigret, per noi. Anche quando leggiamo i libri di Simenon, è a lui che pensiamo, figurandoci il commissario. Un classico </em>(ilDavinotti).</p>
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<p><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_commissario_Maigret_%28film%29"><em>scheda</em></a><em></em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050669/awards"><em>premi e riconoscimenti</em></a><em></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Lower Depths-1936]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bennythomas</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[aka. Les Bas-Fonds It is one of the curiosities in the history of cinema that Jean Renoir who has be]]></description>
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<p>It is one of the curiosities in the history of cinema that Jean Renoir who has been busy making <em>Une Partie de Campagne </em>left it for directing a film, theme of which was apparently against his grain. Une Partie is like a painting of his father come to life where nature takes hand in determining the life of a nubile girl in the flush of her adolescence and her first love. The lovers surrender to nature and to their emotions, and go on to live naturally miserable lives apart. If we look at his father’s paintings we see similar tableaux of lovers with certain poses, foliage, sun and shade.  But he left it for filming The Lower Depths in 1936.<br />
Whereas The Lower Depths is a closed- in world bearing the superscription as in Dante’s Hell. (Despair is the key that is etched on the souls of its denizens.) What had the Gorky’s gutter play to wean him from the Maupassant story?<br />
In 1936 the rise of Hitler in Germany and the Popular Front in France created within the French Left a new sense of solidarity with the Soviet Union. In that context the Russian immigrant producer Alexander Kamenka asked Jean Renoir to direct a film of Maxim Gorky’s play The Lower Depths. Renoir accepted the offer and before agreeing to take on the project, Renoir insisted that the film be set in France (not Russia), and that some drastic changes be made to the plot.  The most significant change was the ending; the tragic denouement in Gorki’s play was replaced with a happier ending, in keeping with the mood of the time.<br />
<strong>Trivia</strong>: Renoir was obliged to write to Gorki to receive permission for these alterations to the story, which was duly given (although Gorki died a few months before the film was released).<br />
<strong>Plot</strong><br />
The story revolves around two characters that represent two ends of the society. One is titled and the other a common thief. The baron (Jouvet ) has stolen 30,000 rubles from the ministry and lost it gambling. Pépel (Gabin) has come to rob the baron’s luxurious house and finds nothing worth stealing there. The baron, returning home in a suicidal mood, interrupts Pépel’s theft. Here in their first encounter, each opens the eyes of the other to the possibility of change. Each glimpses a new possibility, the baron, a life without things; Pépel a life without thefts.</p>
<p>Soon the baron appears at the flophouse. The baron soon finds himself in the swim of things there. If thousand- ruble game in the casino had turned his world upside down he finds life there: he can still indulge his passion in the three-kopek game in the flophouse.  If he has lost his class he has found his life. He sheds luxury and prestige without regret. When Pépel finds life in the lower depths unbearable and proposes to leave the flophouse, he asks the baron what he will do. The baron replies without hesitation, “I’ll stay here.” He has no desire to go. Unlike Gorky’s baron, his descent from aristocracy has not been degrading but liberating.</p>
<p>After Pépel leaves the baron’s carrying the bronze horses he steals some apples, then gives them to a child and tells him, “And if someday someone tells you Pépel is a thief, you’ll set them straight.” The film ends with homage to Chaplin&#8217;s Modern Times as the lovers walk off down the road of life.<br />
<strong>Acting:</strong><br />
The film, apart from its dark theme, is carried by the acting of the two main characters.  The Gabin-Jouvet pairing is a masterstroke, with both actors providing fine performances that are charged with conviction and humanity.  Despite their different backgrounds and approaches to their art, the two actors complement each other perfectly, the down-trodden and passionate proletarian played by Gabin making a poignant contrast with Jouvet’s ruined but nonchalant aristocrat.  The scene where the two characters meet and, realising the absurdity of the barriers which separate them, become friends is one of the enduring moments of the film, and is certainly in keeping with the ethos of the Popular Front.  The large supporting cast gives the film its richness and colour, with notable performances from Suzy Prim, Robert Le Vigan.<br />
<strong>Junie Astor as Natasha</strong><br />
While Gabin and Jouvet were excellent there was much to be desired in the acting of Natasha. Dramatically she plays a prominent role in the film, necessary for both the death of Kostylyov and Pépel’s escape from the lower depths. But her performance destroys almost every scene she is in. Renoir said of this, “She’s terrible, isn’t she? She was a friend of the producer. He asked me as a special favor to give her the part. I worked hard with her but it didn’t do much good.<br />
“<em>Some faces are beautiful, made for the camera. Some faces are not beautiful but interesting. But Junie Astor had a face that showed nothing to the camera. It is empty</em>.”Renoir<br />
“…the wonderful opening shot of the film: Jouvet stands upright, the only figure on screen, in the centre of the frame, silent but with an occasional superior smirk escaping him as his unseen superior rebukes him for embezzling ministry funds to pay off his gambling debts; and the camera swings round him first to the left and then further and further to the right finally to reveal his superior reflected in a mirror.</p>
<p>This single opening shot keys us to all the important features of the film: the priority given to star persona and performance; the degree to which the narrative differs from (adds to, opens out) Gorky&#8217;s original play; and the significance of Renoir&#8217;s camera style of this time, characterised by deep-focus depth-of-field, the moving camera, and the revelation of off-screen space, the world extending beyond the limits of the frame”(brightlights films.com- Ian Johnston)</p>
<p><strong>Renoir and Kurosawa</strong><br />
Donald Richie calls Akira Kurosawa’s film of The Lower Depths a miracle of ensemble playing. In contrast Renoir makes of the play a vehicle for two fine actors, Louis Jouvet and Jean Gabin. The action of Kurosawa’s film occurs completely within the flophouse, as does the play, but less than half of Renoir’s Lower Depths takes place there. Still the flophouse remains, visually, the most interesting locale in the film, with its chiaroscuro lighting and dramatic shadows, its rough bricks, rude stairways, and old wooden posts that often divide the screen vertically or project diagonally across the frame and its length that lends itself so well to deep focus cinematography.</p>
<p>When Akira Kurosawa made his version of The Lower Depths in 1957 he had seen Renoir’s film. It was perhaps that which led him to try it himself. Unlike Renoir, Kurosawa follows Gorky almost scene for scene. In a style that resembles Renoir’s in its long takes and deep focus cinematography Kurosawa creates his flophouse as the locus of a world. But by the sheer vitality of the life in his film manages to overthrow the despair and pathos that permeate the play.</p>
<p>Kurosawa greatly admired Jean Renoir, thought him one of the greatest masters of cinema. The two met once in the 1970s, late in Renoir’s life when Kurosawa was in Los Angeles to receive an Academy Award and was invited to have dinner with the Renoirs. Kurosawa has written that his own decision to write an autobiography was prompted by reading Renoir’s My Life and My Films “and by the terrific impression Renoir left on me when I met him—the feeling that I would like to grow old in the same way he did.”</p>
<p>Kurosawa’s Lower Depths shows the power that could be achieved in cinema by staying close to the text and setting of Gorky’s work. Renoir did not see Kurosawa’s film until 1977. He watched it with great interest, then remarked, “That is a much more important film than mine.”<br />
Although overshadowed by Renoir’s subsequent masterpieces (La Grande Illusion was made straight after this film), Les Bas-fonds is an impressive work, which, through its very evident humanity, remains a surprisingly modern film.  Its wry comic touches have an ironic edge to them, a suggestion perhaps that Renoir might have preferred this to be a much darker work, in the vein of the poetic realists.  This is also hinted at by the location filming which uses an almost neo-realist style to convey the grim reality of poverty.  Noticeable also in this film is Renoir’s admiration for his two heroes of the silent era, Eric Von Stroheim and Chaplin.<br />
A variant of the Lower Depths was made later where some of the Russian elements of the play were introduced that seems to have prevented the film from being a popular success.  The film was well received by the critics, however, and was awarded the first Prix Louis Delluc in 1937.<br />
<strong>Cast</strong></p>
<p>* Jean Gabin &#8211; Wasska Pepel<br />
* Louis Jouvet &#8211; The Baron<br />
* Suzy Prim &#8211; Vassilissa<br />
* Junie Astor &#8211; Natacha<br />
* Jany Holt &#8211; Nastia<br />
* Vladimir Sokoloff &#8211; Kostileff</p>
<p>Robert Le Vigan &#8211; L&#8217;Acteur; Camille Bert &#8211; Le Comte; René Génin &#8211; Le Vieillard; Paul Temps &#8211; Satine; Robert Ozanne &#8211; Jabot; Léon Larive &#8211; Felix, le domestique; Alex Allin; Maurice Baquet &#8211; Accordeoniste; André Gabriello &#8211; Le Commissaire; Lucien Mancini &#8211; Patron de la guinguette; Sylvain<br />
Credit<br />
Jacques Becker &#8211; First Assistant Director, Jean Renoir &#8211; Director, Marguerite Renoir &#8211; Editor, Jean Wiener &#8211; Composer (Music Score), Jean Bachelet &#8211; Cinematographer, F. Bourgas &#8211; Cinematographer, Arthur Mayer &#8211; Producer, Eugène Lourié &#8211; Set Designer, Jacques Companeez &#8211; Screenwriter, Jean Renoir &#8211; Screenwriter, Charles Spaak &#8211; Screenwriter, Maxim Gorky &#8211; Play Author<br />
<strong>Similar Movies</strong><br />
Dodes&#8217;ka-Den; Die Freudlose Gasse; Austeria; The L-Shaped Room<br />
(Ack: James Travers,2002, Alexander Sesonske-criterion collection-30Dec,2003)</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh Toulouse ! … Le service public ! y&#8217;a que ça de vrai ! … Belle affiche ! …]]></description>
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<link>http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/les-voyeurs-81-la-maison-un-endroit-ou-il-fait-bon-vivre/</link>
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<p>Émission diffusée le jeudi 1er octobre 2009 à 18h<br />
rediffusée le samedi 3 octobre 2009 à 10h<br />
(en téléchargement pendant une semaine <a href="http://www.radiogrilleouverte.com/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=60&#38;Itemid=65" target="_blank">ici</a> et en écoute permanente <a href="http://off.blogspace.fr/1856990/80-Les-Voyeurs-font-de-la-resistance/" target="_blank">là</a>.)</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Actualité</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/informant.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2406" title="informant" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/informant.jpg" alt="informant" width="110" height="147" /></a><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/petit-nicolas.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2407" title="petit nicolas" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/petit-nicolas.jpg" alt="petit nicolas" width="110" height="144" /></a><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/thirst.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2408" title="thirst" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/thirst.jpg" alt="thirst" width="109" height="145" /></a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/je-suis-heureux.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2410" title="je suis heureux" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/je-suis-heureux.jpg" alt="je suis heureux" width="108" height="144" /></a><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/coffret-poudlard.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2409" title="coffret poudlard" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/coffret-poudlard.jpg" alt="coffret poudlard" width="157" height="144" /></a><br />
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<p><strong>Metro Goldwyn Mayer : </strong>il manque 20 millions de $ US au studio de production hollywoodien pour terminer l&#8217;année sous risque de faire faillite. La sortie des films comme Bilbo le Hobbit et James Bond 23 est donc menacée. Merci d&#8217;envoyer vos dons pour soutenir ce prestigieux studio au lion qui baille.<strong><br />
Les rumeurs d&#8217;Hollywood : </strong><em>Pirates des Caraïbes 4</em> &#38; 5 ne verront peut-être pas le jour avec Johnny Depp car il en marre ; Neve Campbell par contre à besoin d&#8217;argent et de refaire parler d&#8217;elle car elle a dit oui pour <em>Scream 4</em>.<strong><em><br />
The Informant </em>:</strong> réalisé par Steven Soderbergh, avec Matt Damon et Scott Bakula. En VO aux Arcades.<strong><br />
</strong><strong>A l&#8217;affiche aux Arcades</strong> : <em>Le Petit Nicolas</em> de Laurent Tirard ; <em>Fish Tank</em> d&#8217;Andrea Arnold ; <em>Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante</em> de Claude et Nathan Miller.<strong><br />
<em>Thirst, ceci est mon sang</em></strong><strong> :</strong> film coréen réalisé parChan-wook Park , avec Kang-ho Song.  A l&#8217;affiche en VO au Sémaphore de Nîmes.<strong><br />
<em>Coffrets Collector</em><em> </em></strong>: Les éditeurs ne savent plus quoi trouver pour avoir nos sous. Comme chaque années pour le dernier trimestre ils nous proposent des coffrets collectors très chers avec des statues ou figurines à l&#8217;intérieur =&#62; <em>Anges et Démons</em> avec les 2 statues&#8230; d&#8217;un ange et d&#8217;un démon ; <em>Battlestar Galactica</em> intégrale de la nouvelle série (4 saisons) avec une figurine de Cylon ; <em>Terminator 4</em> avec une statue de moto Terminator à l&#8217;intérieur ; et enfin le coffret <em>Harry Potter 1 à 6</em> dans un coffret en bois laqué surplombé par la reproduction du château Poudlard, tous cela sous vitrine. Notez que sur tout ces coffrets, chose incroyable vu le prix, les films sont compris à l&#8217;intérieur !!</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Dossier de la semaine</strong></span><strong> : La Maison , un endroit où il fait bon vivre ?</strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><br />
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<p>A l&#8217;occasion d&#8217;aucune sortie en particulier <em>Les Voyeurs </em>ont décidés de parler d&#8217;un de ces icônes du cinéma, représenté de tant de manières différentes que nous abordons ici.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>La Maison Surnaturelle</strong></span><strong> :</strong><strong> </strong><em><strong> </strong></em></p>
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<p><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/amityville.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2420" title="amityville" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/amityville.jpg" alt="amityville" width="365" height="243" /></a></p>
<p><em><strong>Amityville, la maison du diable</strong></em> (The Amityville Horror) de Stuart Rosenberg (1979).<em><strong><br />
La Maison du Diable</strong></em> (The Haunting) de Robert Wise (1964).<em><strong><br />
La Maison des Damnées</strong></em> (The Legend of Hell House) de John Hough (1973).<em><strong><br />
Les Autres</strong></em> (The Others) d&#8217;Alejandro Amenabar (2001).<em><strong> </strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong> </strong></em><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>La Maison Prison</strong></span><strong> :</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/beetlejuice.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2421" title="beetlejuice" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/beetlejuice.jpg" alt="beetlejuice" width="364" height="204" /></a><br />
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<p><em><strong> Beetlejuice</strong></em> de Tim Burton (1988).<em><strong><br />
Panic Room</strong></em> de David Fincher (2002).<em><strong><br />
</strong></em><em><strong>Fenêtre sur Pacifique</strong></em> (Pacific Heighs) de John Schlesinger (1991).<br />
<em><strong>Les Vestiges du jour </strong></em>de James Ivory (1994).</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>La Maison Cercueil</strong></span><strong> :</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/funny-games-us.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2422" title="funny-games-us" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/funny-games-us.jpg" alt="funny-games-us" width="356" height="260" /></a></p>
<p><em><strong> Funny Games US</strong></em> de Michael Haneke (1998 / 2008).<em><strong><br />
Massacre à la Tronçonneuse</strong></em> (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) de Tobe Hooper (1974).<br />
<em><strong>Psychose</strong> </em>(Psycho) d&#8217;Alfred Hitchcock (1960).<br />
<em><strong>Halloween, la nuit des Masques</strong></em> de John Carpenter (1978).</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>La bande originale de la semaine</strong></span><strong> :</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/le-pacha.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2418" title="le pacha" src="http://thevoyeurs.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/le-pacha.jpg" alt="le pacha" width="296" height="311" /></a><br />
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<p><em>Requiem pour un con </em>par Serge Gainsbourg<br />
Extrait de la bande originale du film <em>Le Pacha</em> (1968) de Georges Lautner, avec Jean Gabin, Dany Carrel et André Pousse.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Chronique</strong></span><strong> :</strong></p>
<p><em>Une Tranche de Geek VIII &#8211; Panique sur Florida Geek</em></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Musique</span> : </strong><br />
<em>Our House</em> par Madness</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Extraits</span> :</strong><em><br />
Amityville, la Maison du Diable<br />
Beetlejuice<br />
Funny Games</em></p>
<p>Présentation : Erik Antolin, Jérôme Bauzon, Cédric Cance<br />
Réalisation : Jérémie Adrian</p>
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<link>http://laternamagika.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/le-cave-se-rebiffe-de-gilles-grangier/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Benoît Thevenin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://laternamagika.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/le-cave-se-rebiffe-de-gilles-grangier/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[En 1954, Jean Gabin incarne Max Le Menteur, truand vieillissant et héros de Touchez pas au grisbi de]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Touchez Pas au Grisbi]]></title>
<link>http://whatisfilmnoir.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/touchez-pas-au-grisbi/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://whatisfilmnoir.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/touchez-pas-au-grisbi/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Touchez Pas au Grisbi, known best as simply Grisbi, is not always thought of as a film noir. However]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><em>Touchez Pas au Grisbi</em>, known best as simply <em>Grisbi</em>, is not always thought of as a film noir. However, it was essentially the beginning of a genre in French film known as gangster noir. It was released in March of 1954 in France on the heels of the major period of film noir, though not released in the U.S. until July of 1959. </p>
<p><em>Grisbi</em> stars Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Daniel Cauchy and Lino Ventura, though this was not considered an all-star cast at the time. Moreau, Ventura and Cauchy were unknowns and Gabin was considered a washed-up has-been. The film was made, like most noirs, on a shoestring budget and without great expectations.</p>
<p><em>Grisbi </em>is directed by Jacques Becker, who directed only 13 films and is not known for his gangster films but is considered a master for his technical expertise and his obsessive goal of realism in film. </p>
<p><em>Grisbi</em> is essentially about an aging gangster Max (Jean Gabin) who has just made a big score of gold bars that will set him and his pal Riton (Rene Dary) up for good. They are both slick gangsters who hang out in a French café/dance hall and spend their loot on the much younger dancers. </p>
<p>Another gangster Angelo (Lino Ventura) finds out about the huge score that Max and Riton made and decides to kidnap Riton to force Max to hand over the loot to him. This, of course, results in a patented gangster meeting and shootout involving machine guns. One addition is the appearance of pipe bombs used during the shootout. </p>
<p>After this film, there was a trend toward what would be called gangster noir in French film. <em>Rififi</em> is a great example of this genre and would follow <em>Grisbi</em> a year later in April of 1955 and the genre would run strong for about 20 years in French cinema. </p>
<p align="center"><strong>Elements of Film Noir</strong></p>
<p> <em>Touchez Pas au Grisbi</em> has many elements of film noir, but also goes against other elements. There is some really nice shadows and chiaroscuro lighting going on throughout the film. The cinematography as a whole is very much film noir. However, there is an incredible amount of realism of characters that you would not normally see in a noir. For example, when Max brings Riton to his hideout, you see this gangster eating crackers, brushing his teeth, getting out the linens for Riton to use, and even giving up his bed to Riton who promptly refuses. </p>
<p>The characters in this film do not really fit the noir stereotype of hardboiled and troubled. Max, Angelo and Riton are much more smooth and under control. They seem only to be bothered by the situation and not so much by underlying problems with their psyche. </p>
<p>Like most film noirs, though, Max is an anti-hero. You root for him and Riton, but at the same time they are not really good people. They are violent gangsters who steal for a living and murder if it becomes necessary. </p>
<p align="center"><strong>Recommendation</strong> </p>
<p><em>Touchez Pas au Grisbi</em> is an excellent film. For those who still do not think it belongs in the category of a film noir, it is still worthy of viewing as soon as you get a chance. The acting in this film is superb, from the top all the way down to the henchmen and ladies of the evening. Gabin is amazing as always, and ranks with the all-time greats such as DeNiro, Brando, Steiger, Bogart and whoever else you can think of. </p>
<p>The direction by Becker is perfectly concise with realism that was not the norm of the time. While the story moves quickly and the acting is excellent, what may stand out the most in the film, at least for me, is the score. Jean Wiener&#8217;s score is reminiscent of Morricone in Leone&#8217;s Italian westerns to follow about a decade later. You can&#8217;t not notice this music and it is a shame that Becker cut so much of it out of the film. </p>
<p>If you have an hour and a half some time, there are few better films to watch than <em>Touchez Pas au Grisbi</em>. You will not be disappointed.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[20 Shots: Les Bas-Fonds (1936)]]></title>
<link>http://bradwrolstad.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/20-shots-les-bas-fonds-1936/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Brad Wrolstad</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bradwrolstad.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/20-shots-les-bas-fonds-1936/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jean Renoir&#8217;s version of The Lower Depths has the rich ambience of classic film noir minus the]]></description>
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<p>Jean Renoir&#8217;s version of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027336/">The Lower Depths</a> has the rich ambience of classic film noir minus the cynicism. The lead role goes to Jean Gabin who manages to make being <em>un voleur</em> seem like a noble career path, but the heart of the movie belongs to Louis Jouvet&#8217;s Baron, who lives his own riches to rags story with great equanimity as long as he can find a card game to sit in on. There&#8217;s plenty of counterpoint between high society and a forgotten underworld here and it&#8217;s always clear where the Baron&#8217;s, and Renoir&#8217;s, sympathies lie. Solid performances (by Gabin, Jouvet, Suzy Prim, Jany Holt, André Gabriello, and the rest of the ensemble cast) and tight, interwoven storytelling make this one of Renoir&#8217;s finest though lesser known films.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Touchez pas au grisbi de Jacques Becker]]></title>
<link>http://laternamagika.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/touchez-pas-au-grisbi-de-jacques-becker/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Benoît Thevenin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://laternamagika.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/touchez-pas-au-grisbi-de-jacques-becker/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Max (Jean Gabin) et Riton (René Dary), deux truands associés depuis près de vingt ans, viennent de r]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Le tatoué 名畫追蹤]]></title>
<link>http://lovingmovie.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/le-tatoue-%e5%90%8d%e7%95%ab%e8%bf%bd%e8%b9%a4/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>lovingmovie</dc:creator>
<guid>http://lovingmovie.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/le-tatoue-%e5%90%8d%e7%95%ab%e8%bf%bd%e8%b9%a4/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[好幽默搞笑的一套舊片,一開始見兩個法國老頭的戲,以為會好閟,誰知出奇的搞笑,一個畫商有一天發現有一個退役軍人老頭的背上有一個名畫家的真跡,出巨額買此畫,老頭不為所動,畫商覺得這絕對是個機不可失的機會,]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img src="http://lovingmovie.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/le-tatoue1.jpg?w=150" alt="le tatoue" title="le tatoue" width="150" height="150" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-351" />好幽默搞笑的一套舊片,一開始見兩個法國老頭的戲,以為會好閟,誰知出奇的搞笑,一個畫商有一天發現有一個退役軍人老頭的背上有一個名畫家的真跡,出巨額買此畫,老頭不為所動,畫商覺得這絕對是個機不可失的機會,轉賣此畫給兩個紐約來的收藏家收取大量金錢.他有信心能叫老頭賣給他. 畫商出高價, 老頭不要錢,畫商提出在巴黎效區送他別墅,老頭說他有別墅,但己陳舊,畫商提出幫他修復別墅.老頭心動,</p>
<p>帶他到很遠的效區, 一路上老頭熱愛大自然的天性和日理萬機掛住搵錢的城市人生活的畫商弄出不少笑話．老頭所說的別墅是一個古城堡,老頭原來是個老伯爵,畫商傻了眼,但還是可行. 忙找裝修工人, 老伯爵的古堡裡有個秘密地下水牢,常有小偷來古堡偷東西,老伯爵總有辦法將他們趕下水牢,畫商覺得特別好玩,在和老伯爵的吵吵閙閙中,畫商漸漸跟老伯爵學會享受人生. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[#51 • Henri Verneuil, Un singe en hiver (1962)]]></title>
<link>http://zerodeconduite.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/51-%e2%80%a2-henri-verneuil-un-singe-en-hiver-1962/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ZDC</dc:creator>
<guid>http://zerodeconduite.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/51-%e2%80%a2-henri-verneuil-un-singe-en-hiver-1962/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Après le #50 de notre parcours cinéphilique il était important pour moi de décompresser. Un singe en]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1059" title="Un singe en hiver" src="http://zerodeconduite.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/un-singe-en-hiver.jpg?w=225" alt="Un singe en hiver" width="210" height="300" />Après le <a href="http://zerodeconduite.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/50-%e2%80%a2-andrei-tarkovski-stalker-1979/">#50</a> de notre parcours cinéphilique il était important pour moi de décompresser. <em>Un singe en hiver</em> tombait à pic. C&#8217;est d&#8217;ailleurs ceci qui est tout à fait excitant dans la rédaction d&#8217;un blog tel que <em>Zéro de Conduite</em>, les possibilités quasi-infinies de changement de registre à chaque film. Cela faisait quelque temps que je ne m&#8217;étais pas replongé dans un film français. En bon gaulois, amateur de gouaille, la rencontre entre un type comme Gabin et un dialoguiste tel que Audiard a tout sur le papier pour me réjouir. La présence d&#8217;un Belmondo à l&#8217;époque très en vue étant un autre argument de poids.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ouverture du film en temps de guerre. Nous sommes à Tigreville, un village de Normandie (imaginaire, le film a été tourné en grande partie à Villerville dans le Calvados), alors en proie aux bombardements alliés et à l&#8217;occupation allemande. C&#8217;est à ce moment que l&#8217;on fait la connaissance d&#8217;Albert Quentin (Gabin), folklorique ancien combattant en Indochine sévèrement porté sur la bouteille. L&#8217;après-guerre est habilement signifié par la transformation de la nom d&#8217;une avenue: l&#8217;avenue du Maréchal Pétain devient l&#8217;avenue du général de Gaulle. Quinze années nous séparent du début du film. Quentin avait à l&#8217;époque promis à sa femme Suzanne (Suzanne Flon) d&#8217;arrêter de boire s&#8217;ils survivaient aux bombardements et à la guerre. Les deux époux tiennent un hôtel-restaurant où ils voient un jour débarquer un certain Gabriel Fouquet (Belmondo). Très vite, ce dernier s&#8217;avère être un buveur invétéré. Il boit pour oublier sa femme qui l&#8217;a quitté, pour rêver d&#8217;Espagne et de corridas. Petit à petit, Quentin se prend d&#8217;affection pour le jeune homme ce qui fait craindre à son épouse Suzanne qu&#8217;il ne rompe quinze ans d&#8217;abstinence.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Un film drôle et attendrissant qui s&#8217;est progressivement imposé comme un des classiques du cinéma français d&#8217;après-guerre. Verneuil, avec l&#8217;aide de ses deux acteurs vedettes (leur seule et unique rencontre cinématographique d&#8217;ailleurs), signe une comédie de bonne facture. Les dialogues d&#8217;Audiard sont réjouissants et les dernières minutes absolument inoubliables (le feu d&#8217;artifice &#8211; à ce propos n&#8217;oublions pas la composition de Noël Roquevert, en bouquitier un poil foutraque &#8211; et les adieux sur le quai d&#8217;une gare). A voir et à revoir.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[More French films]]></title>
<link>http://bunnybuntales.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/more-french-films/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>bunnybuntales</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bunnybuntales.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/more-french-films/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last night I hung out with a friend and his French amis.  Made me think of some more favorite French]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Last night I hung out with a friend and his French amis.  Made me think of some more favorite French films. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065486/" target="_blank">Borsalino</a> (1970) famous ganster film with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001128/" target="_blank">Alain Delon </a>and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000901/" target="_blank">Jean-Paul Belmondo</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026023/" target="_blank">Zouzou</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001927/" target="_blank">Josephine Baker</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0300064/" target="_blank">Jean Gabin</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026891/" target="_blank">Princesse Tam Tam </a>with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001927/" target="_blank">Josephine Baker</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0699522/" target="_blank">Albert Prejean</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051378/" target="_blank">Ascenseur pour l&#8217;echafaud</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603402/" target="_blank">Jeanne Moreau</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073114/" target="_blank">L&#8217;histoire de Adele H.</a> with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000254/" target="_blank">Isabelle Adjani</a></p>
<p>And a French film I can&#8217;t stand.  LOL</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058450/" target="_blank">Les Parapluies de Cherbourg</a> (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000366/" target="_blank">Catherine Deneuve</a></p>
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<link>http://frenchcarcan.com/?p=2398</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>La French Connexion</dc:creator>
<guid>http://frenchcarcan.com/?p=2398</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Extrait du film &#8220;Le Président&#8221; réalisé par Henri Verneuil, sorti en 1961.]]></description>
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