Jean-Pierre Melville, October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973.

With François Périer, André Bourvil, Yves Montand, and Alain Delon on the set of Le cercle rouge (1970). Photo by André Perlstein.

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Bourvil 🎶 La tactique du Gendarme

📽 Le roi Pandore de André Berthomieux

Notes on Jean-Paul Le Chanois’s Les Misérables (1958) from French costume drama of the 1950s: fashioning politics in film (2010) by Susan Hayward 

-The film was primarily funded by Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (a state owned East German film studio) and Pathé but was shot with Technicolor’s Thechnirama screen process (rather than the East German Agfacolor) -It was filmed in Berlin, except for the location shoots in Toulon, Digne, the Luxembourg gardens, and scenes along the Seine. (Some French critics thought it was “anti-national” to recreate Paris in Berlin.) -Real soldiers from Easy Germany’s army acted in the battle of Waterloo and the June Rebellion scenes. -The film was criticized for being condescending, as well as for supposedly inaccurate sets and for reusing sets (the houses in Toulon are also the houses in Digne, despite the fact that they did film on location and the dining room of the house on the rue Plumet is also in the house on the rue des Filles du Calvaire.) -Le Chanois originally planned for the film to be 5 hours and 25 minutes. The producers cut the film from four and a half hours to three. The excised footage has been lost.  -She notes how Marius and Cosette’s romance, along with Eponine slow down the movie, which I have seen said of a lot of film adaptations!  -The actor who played Thénardier (André Bourvil) was known for his roles in comedies and therefore he was hesitant to take the role. Obviously different comedians have played Thénardier in various musical productions but have there been other examples of comedians playing him in film? I feel like there is one but I’m forgetting it!  -The film included 28 different sets designed by Serge Pimenoff. She remarks in particular on the accuracy of the streets surrounding the Corinth, as described by Hugo, as well as Valjean’s homes in Paris.  -Overall, the rebellion is toned down. She places this in the context of the controversy at the time over Algerian independence. -No red flag is waved at Lamarque’s funeral, possibly to avoid censorship, but it is draped over Mabeuf, Eponine, and Gavroche. She says that a tricolor flag (held at General Lamarque’s funeral) would represent a desire to return to the republic. Is that true though? -She points to Portrait of Monsieur Bertin as a possible inspiration for Jean Valjean’s bourgeois clothes.  -This sentence about Cosette stands out: “The bouffant mutton sleeves, so popular at the time, further enhance her aura of dematerialized being.”  -She says that Mabeuf, Eponine, and Gavroche, laid out all three together under the banner “Equality to man and to woman” make there own sort of symbolic work-class family, which counter-balances Cosette and Marius’s bourgeois family.  -When the film was released in West Germany, the censor cut out the scenes with rioting.

Le Capitan.

1960.

Réalisation : André Hunebelle

Scénario :Jean Halain, André Hunebelle et Pierre Foucaud

Casting :

Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli, Pierrette Bruno, Arnoldo Foà, Jacqueline Porel, Christian Fourcade, Annie Anderson, Guy Delorme

Synopsis :

Louis XIII vient de passer l'âge de la majorité, mais sa mère Marie de Médicis continue de gouverner le royaume avec son favori Concini, premier ministre, qui conspire pour éliminer le souverain et sème la terreur dans le pays. Une conjuration de grands seigneurs vise à chasser Concini et à remplacer le roi défaillant par le duc Charles d'Angoulême. Le chevalier François de Capestang, qui a été sauvé dans un combat par Gisèle d'Angoulême, est décidé à se battre pour faire triompher la justice et sauver la couronne de son roi, ainsi que la vie de Gisèle. Il part pour Paris présenter les remontrances de la noblesse de sa province.

Plaisir de lecture :

Un de mes films de cape et d’épée préférés ! Il y a tout ce qu’il faut là où il faut : action, complot, aventure, duel et évasion, romance bien dosée, humour !

Pour une fois, Louis XIII ne passe pas pour un idiot incapable.

Note : 5 chats.

Disponibilité :

Existe en DVD et Bluray.

Disponible en VOD.

Bonus Points Chats :

Pas de chats ! Mais le chien et le cheval de Cogolin font leur show.

Note : 3 chats.

Gian Maria Volontè, Alain Delon, and Yves Montand in Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)

Cast: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, Paul Amiot, Pierre Collet, André Ekyan, François Périer. Screenplay: Jean-Pierre Melville. Cinematography: Henri Decaë. Production design: Théobald Meurisse. Film editing: Marie-Sophie Dubus. Music: Éric Demarsan.

Caper films are such a standard movie genre that it takes a skilled director to make it new. Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge stands out from the herd of jewel heists and missions impossible because of its effortless-seeming cool. Of course, if you want effortless cool you cast Alain Delon and Yves Montand, whose pictures should accompany any dictionary definition of the word. Nobody ever wore a trenchcoat with such handsome finesse as Delon and nobody ever smoked a cigarette with such world-weary fatalism as Montand. The centerpiece of Melville's film is the extended sequence in which the trio of thieves light-finger the loot, a scene distinguished by its near-silence, so that you hear every bump and rustle (along with the gasps and chuckles of your fellow viewers) as it takes place. But Melville has given us more: A fable based on a quotation from the Buddha that Melville himself made up, to the effect that men who are fated to meet "will inevitably come together in the red circle." So Corey (Delon), released from prison, finds himself linked to Vogel (Gian Maria Volontè), who has made a daring escape from Mattei (Bourvil), the cop who arrested him and is transporting him to prison, and eventually to Jansen (Montand), an alcoholic sharpshooter, in pulling off a spectacular jewelry theft. Their coming-together forms the plot, but what distinguishes the film is the quiet mastery with which Melville draws each of his characters, giving us details about them, like Corey's failed relationship with his former mistress or Mattei's devotion to his three cats, that bear no significance in terms of the plot. Mattei's slipup in letting Vogel escape puts him on the hot spot with internal affairs (Paul Amiot), a sinister figure (of course) who believes in the essential depravity of humankind: "All men are guilty," he growls. "They're born innocent, but it doesn't last." That's about as noir a sentiment as you can get, even in a film made in color.

Yves Montand - Le Cercle Rouge

1970 film, Le Cercle Rouge, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. I don't find Montand particularly attractive but my husband Brian always says a man is more attractive in leather gloves and I agree. In this still, the criminal is using the pretence of buying his wife a piece of jewellery to give him a chance to check out the security cameras.

This was also the last film of the brilliant French actor and comedian, André Raimbourg - stage name Bourvil. He was terminally ill when he shot the film, playing the police commissaire, and he turns in the finest performance of his career. Bourvil died in September 1970.

Bon…. Je vais probablement me faire lyncher mais….

Qu’est-ce que c’est que ça?!

Tournoi organisé par un site belge

32 acteurs sélectionnés

Quelques grands - Belmondo, Ventura, Bourvil, Fernandel, Depardieu, Auteuil entre autres….

Mais là…. Enfin j’aime Kaamelott mais jamais Alexandre Astier est le deuxième ou le meilleur acteur français de l’Histoire 😱😱😱😱

A croire qu’on peut pas être objectif en étant fan de Kaamelott quoi (ça doit être pour ça qu’on est la risée de beaucoup de monde sur les réseaux sociaux…)

Quand on pense que parmi les acteurs même pas sélectionnés on avait: Tcheky Karyo, André Dussolier, Jean Rochefort, Philippe Noiret, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bertrand Blier, Michel Serrault et tellement d’autres…

Je sais que dans cette fandom il faut jamais remettre en cause le génie d’Astier mais à ce point-là….

Le Bossu de André Hunebelle (1959) #jeanmarais #bourvil

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Le Cercle Rouge. 1970. Jean-Pierre Melville. France.