Françoise, apparently happily married to Henri, a racing pilot, discovers that her husband has a mistress. She decides to leave the flat in a bourgeois district of Paris and rents a little room (in former servants’ quarters on the higher floor of a bourgeois building) rue de l’estrapade . She even looks for a job in a fashion showroom. But Henri wants her back.

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Jacques Becker’s (Le Trou) Touchez Pas Au Grisbi occupies a significant part in French cinema history; it exerted a huge influence on subsequent directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Doulos), Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan) and Claude Sautet (Classe Tous Risques). Max (Jean Gabin, Port of Shadows) is an aging gangster who manages to pull off his final heist, a spectacular gold bullion robbery at Orly airport. All is well until Max’s former girlfriend Josy (Jeanne Moreau, Viva Maria!) tips off a rival gangster, Angelo (Lino Ventura, Razzia Sur La Chnouf). Angelo kidnaps Max’s partner and best friend and threatens to kill him unless Max hands over the loot from his robbery. Touchez Pas Au Grisbi was the birth the French policier, a European transposition of the fantastic American gangster films and film noirs of the 1940s. Based on a book by Albert Simonin (Cold Sweat) and beautifully shot in striking black-and-white by Pierre Montazel (Hi-Jack Highway).

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A propaganda film produced by the French Communist Party (PCF) for the campaign for the May 1936 elections – which brought the Popular Front to power – “La vie est à nous”, by Jean Renoir, was shot by a team of militant filmmakers and technicians.

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France, on the eve of the legislative elections, between the threat of national and international fascism, the policy of crisis and repression organised for the benefit of the “200 families”, and the hope embodied both by the daily action of the militants of the Communist Party and by the proposals of its leaders.
The economic crisis is underlined from the opening of the film by a sequence opposing the speech of a teacher on the wealth of France, and the social reality experienced by his students.

The film exposes the fascist threat with images of February 6, 1934, the military training of the Crosses of Fire, the threats of war and death embodied by Hitler and Mussolini, and a parade of Colonel de la Rocque’s supporters. It ends with the demonstrations of the Popular Front (images of July 14, 1935) and exposes the policy of the Communist Party presented as a warm and supportive party.

Three fictional sketches, supplemented by a documentary part, illustrate the concrete action of the communist militants:
# A company cell goes on strike against the infernal pace and the dismissal of an old worker
# Communist militants oppose the seizure of a peasant’s property
# A group of young communists (with choir) welcomes and feeds a hungry young unemployed graduate. This last fictional sequence, the longest and most complex, is undoubtedly intended for the “middle classes” and the petty bourgeoisie.

A short reconstructed scene shows a salesman of L’Humanité, attacked by a small group of fascists, supported and defended by the population of a market. The film ends with excerpts of speeches by leaders of the P.C.F. to specific categories of the population (women, youth, peasants, veterans…), and with shots of a crowd singing the International throughout the campaign.

Note: Commissioned for propaganda purposes by the Communist Party in February 1936, in view of the elections that would bring the Popular Front to power, La Vie est à nous is the result of a collective work (filmmakers and politicians) under the direction of Jean Renoir.
It was banned on its release and throughout the period of the Popular Front. The film began to be released commercially in 1969. ” Financed by collections during Party meetings, the film cost around 70,000 F, or a tenth of an average budget at the time. As it was not presented to the censors, it was only shown in communist cells and meetings.”

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In a remote village, a family of hard-working country folk known as the ’Goupis’ live at an inn, proud of their history and distrusting of all outsiders. The youngest member of the Goupi clan, Goupi-Monsieur, now lives in Paris, but he is summoned to the Goupi’s home by his father, who is planning to marry him to the young Goupi-Mugeut. Soon after Goupi-Monsieur arrives in the village, the elderly Goupi-L’Empereur is found unconscious and the imperious housekeeper Goupi-Tisane is discovered dead in the forest. When a wad of money goes missing, the Goupis fear that their ancestral treasure has also been stolen. Only Goupi-L’Empereur knows the whereabouts of the teasure but he is unable to speak. The finger of suspicion points squarely at the new arrival, Goupi-Monsieur. However, the wisest of the Goupis, Goupi mains rouges, has another theory

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Synopsis:
Lucien is a young man whose ambition is to become a famous explorer, against the wishes of his middle-class parents who hope he might settle for a more conventional career. After a row with his father, he leaves home and meets up with his friends, a wild bunch of aspiring young actors, writers and film directors. The latter have offered to join Lucien on his expedition – if he can get the transportation. Lucien is so preoccupied with planning his expedition that he does not notice when his girlfriend Christine is taken from him by the theatre director she is working for.

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Synopsis
The great gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin, engages in a series of daring schemes to deprive his wealthy countrymen of rare jewels and priceless paintings. His activities arouse the interest of Kaiser William II of Germany who arranges for Lupin to be kidnapped and brought to his castle. The Kaiser offers Lupin a challenge: to steal a jewel of great value from a secret hiding place. Should Lupin accept the wager?

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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.

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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.

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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