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Friday, July 30, 2010

Jacques Becker - Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)

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Synopsis
Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi (Hands Off the Loot!). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend. But when Riton (René Dary), Max’s hapless partner and best friend, lets word of the loot slip to loose-lipped, two-timing Josy (Jeanne Moreau), Max is reluctantly drawn back into the underworld. A touchstone of the gangster-film genre, Touchez pas au grisbi is also pure Becker—understated, elegant, evocative.

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Sunday, June 20, 2010

Jacques Becker - Goupi mains rouges aka It happened at the inn (1943)

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Goupi mains rouges (["Red-Handed" Goupi is a character and the red hands are literal descriptors not a metaphor; an American title for the movie is " It Happened at the Inn"] 1943, directed by Jacques Becker, written by Pierre Véry, 3.8 stars) is a (dark) comedy, with a dollop of romance to go with the jealousy of a displaced suitor, with touches of a murder mystery or two. Although made during the Nazi occupation of France, the movie thoroughly subverts the mythologization (by French fascists as by their German and Italian equivalent) of the countryside as the homeland of virtues.

The urbane Parisian, Eugene Goupi (Georges Rollin), summoned to meet his father and his father's brothers, a nattily-dressed Parisian is the innocent compared to the wily and resentful relatives he had never before met. Despite incessant internal squabbling, when confronted by the state (in the form of a policeman), the warring Goupis come together to present a united front of denial. Indeed, they are a more effective gang than the one in Becker's later (and greater) Casque d'or.

The country folk are far more concerned with the emergence of a new calf than the arrival of the son of the owner of the inn, and what he finds in the deserted house sends him fleeing again (having already fled the hut of the uncle who picked him up from the train station).

There is a famous scene (a clip of which I had seen before) of "Tonkin" (a former infantryman in French Indochina played by Robert Le Vigan) is treed (whether also freed is open to interpretation).

Perhaps for its rural locale as much as for the sinister doings in the countryside, With Friends Like Harry. I guess the two movies are also about finding out who may be trusted. There is some twisted humor in "With Friends Like Harry," but that movie verges on being a horror movie, whereas the Goupis are more like the eccentrics in "Cold Comfort Farm."

I saw "Goupi" in a series, "French Cinema Under the Occupation" curated by director Bertrand Tavenier, whose 2002 movie "Safe Conduct" portrays French film-makers during the Occupation. According to Tavenier, "'Groupi' subverts the theme of return to the land—one dear to the Vichy regime." "Groupi" is an ensemble piece, like Becker's last movie, Le Trou, but unlike the two other Becker movies available on DVD. Tavenier praised the "splendid camera work [of Pierre Montazel] that is never too formal." There are some formal tableaux, but they are not held long; there is lots of cutting within every scene.

Love is in the air

Hate is in the air

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Subtìtulos castellano:
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English subtitles:
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Jacques Becker - Rendez-vous de juillet aka Appointment with life (1949)

Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the Continental "youth culture." Teenaged Lucien (Daniel Gelin) aspires to become a filmmaker, and to that end organizes his friends into a film unit. The young cineastes hope to make a journey into Africa, there to film an uncompromisingly realistic documentary. Amusingly, Lucien and his friends are shown to be rather ill-equipped for "real life," shuttling as they do between theatre classes, jazz bars and coffee houses. Also, Lucien will have to overcome some family problems before he can embrace the responsibilities of adulthood. Winner of a critics' award at the Cannes Film Festival

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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Jacques Becker - Le Trou AKA The Hole (1960)

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Le Trou (literally, The Hole) is a harrowing experience in claustrophobia, pressure and hope among inmates in a French prison. The hopes and aspirations of the overcrowded members of one prison cell are put to the test as they commit their trust to luck and each other, to effect a difficult escape. Jacques Becker's final film is the most realistic prison break movie Savant's seen - as we all know how these stories usually turn out, the tension and suspense grow, every desperate step of the way.

Synopsis:
The La Santé is overcrowded because of construction, and five men are put into each cell instead of four. But in one cell, the inmates are secretly delighted. Claude Gaspard (Marc Michel), faces a long sentence and therefore can be trusted. He'll be the extra man needed for a daring, complicated escape the men have planned, that requires nerve, deception, and a lot of digging. The scheme is such a beautifully executed communal effort, that when the first diggers break through to the outside world, they dutifully go back so that their comrades can escape too.

Prison escape movies are usually the kind of caper films that enliven the tension of criminals plotting and digging, with melodramatic character studies and bitter social comment. Le Trou begins with an ordinary-looking Frenchman staring at us from the yard of an auto shop, telling us that the story we are about to see is true, and that he was part of it. His name is Jean Keraudy, and Jacques Becker casts him as a participant in a real story based on his own life, as the 'mastermind' of the escape. The bit of grey sky in this first, documentary scene, is the last we'll see for a long time.

Le Trou is concentrated on the chemistry and tensions between the five men in the crowded cell, who must live together while figuring out if the new man among them can be trusted to join in on the escape. The original four are serving long sentences, and when they find out that the handsome newcomer also is up for a twenty-year term, they decide to bring him in on the deal. The new man, Marc Michel (Roland Cassard in Demy's Lola and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) is initially confused but joins in on the plan, which requires digging bit by bit through the concrete floor of their cell.

Le Trou has so much outright work in it, it's exhausting. The sound effects are perfectly pitched to make the use of a pick on concrete believeable. Once the diggers are into the sub-basement, they have to navigate a maze-like course and then dig an even tougher tunnel through creepy, cold underground passageways. While they work, it's like they're digging out of Hell itself. The effort required to deceive the guards is as trying as the digging, and everything must be built and carried out by five men in a room barely larger than a closet.

Forget about prison clichés. The guards and even the warden are nice guys, and the confines of the cell lead the men to become introverted rather than aggressive. The claustrophobia of the cell has become as unbearable for us as it is for the inmates, when we finally begin to penetrate the prison walls. With every new barrier that comes down, our world gets a little bit bigger, until ...

With such forced intimacy, the dialogue in Le Trou comes in short, quiet bursts, and the acting soon breaks down into subtle looks on the men's faces. One man acting out of sorts can easily upset the other four, as there's a built-in incentive for someone to inform. There's no overriding social statement here, just the urge toward freedom by inmates who want to stop being caged animals, and walk freely again. Le Trou obviously wasn't shown in any kind of prison anywhere, but I think it would have gotten a standing ovation if it were.

The cast is uniformly excellent, and claimed in the production notes to have been drawn from unprofessionals. Catherine Spaak and another actress show up in abbreviated but important parts, but Savant doesn't want to give out any more of the plot. Le Trou is the kind of movie that you'll want to see uninterrupted.