Synopsis wrote:
Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Cesariot that his real father is Marius, the absent son of César, Cesariot’s godfather. Panisse leaves that to Fanny, the lad’s mother. Dissembling that he’s off to see a friend, Cesariot then seeks Marius, now a mechanic in Toulon. Posing as a journalist, Cesariot spends time with Marius and leaves believing tales he is a petty thief. Only after the truth comes out can Marius, Fanny, César, and Cesariot step beyond the falsehoods, benign though they may be.

César (1936).mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 21 min
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https://nitro.download/view/679E592784886B1/Cesar_(1936).mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/7cd7193ee06b994617c3b6612062ad0c/Cesar_(1936).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Marcel Pagnol – César (1936) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis wrote:
Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s departure—and her realization that she’s pregnant. Panisse continues courting her and embraces the baby’s impending arrival as a gift, so long as its paternity remains a secret. Fanny and Panisse wed, but after her baby’s birth, Marius returns unexpectedly and demands what he believes is still his.

rsoonsa (IMDB user) wrote:
FANNY is the second film of a trilogy, based upon a play by Marcel Pagnol, from which all three works are taken, featuring most of the cast of excellent actors which made the stage original a great artistic and popular success, including Raimu, Charpin, Pierre Fresnay, and Orane Demazis as Fanny, an assemblage which remains faithful to the heart of the original. By repudiating the normal placement of concurrent French films made in Parisian studios, and producing the work in his native Marseilles, in Provence, Pagnol achieves a finely-hewn naturalism which is very congenial to the scenario, dealing as it does with a hard-working bourgeoisie whose lives are in concert with rhythms of a major seaport.

Fanny’s passionate attention to Marius (Fresnay) results in her pregnancy from their farewell coupling at the denouement of the first of the trilogy, MARIUS, with her lover falling prey to the lure of a seafaring life and she, abandoned, accepts a proposal of marriage from a much older M. Panisse (Charpin), in order to save the reputation of her family. The love of Panisse for the child of Fanny is the moving force in what must be the inevitable fulfillment of the storyline, i.e., the return of Marius to claim his erstwhile fiancée and his true child in a scene which brings the best from Demazis, Fresnay, and Raimu as Cesar, the father of Marius and lifelong friend of Panisse.

Pagnol directed only the finale of the trio, and selects for FANNY Marc Allegret, who leads the cast with distinction, displaying particular skill when allowing Pagnol’s magnificent dialogue to be developed in what is essentially a filmed work for the stage, with few sets, and who allows liberal emphasis upon the plastic Raimu, who is, after all, the most important presence in this romantic masterpiece.

Fanny (1932).mkvLanguage(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 7 min
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https://nitro.download/view/93BF2EC62D685FC/Fanny_(1932).mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Marc Allégret – Fanny (1932) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis wrote:
César runs a bar along Marseilles’ port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful characters abound: M. Panisse, an aging widower and prosperous sail maker; Honorine, a fishmonger with a sidewalk stall near the bar; her daughter, Fanny, who helps her sell cockles; and, various old salts. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship’s whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny’s hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, comic spirit, tries to guide his son.

Marius (1931).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 7 min
Size: 	1.98 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	690x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.198
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.210
Audio
#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/2E254CCA1EA7148/Marius_(1931).mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Alexander Korda – Marius (1931) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

IMDb review:

Sandwiched between “Boudu Sauvé des Eaux” and “Madame Bovary” ,”Chotard et Cie” is necessarily a let-down .Adapted from a stage play,it’s a badly constructed movie.Roughly there are three parts and the connection between them is very thin.

ACT ONE: Chotard (Charpin) is in the grocery business.After a ball,his daughter marries a poet ,much to her father’s annoyance.The son-in-law is no good at anything,not even weighing ham, and giving sweets for free to the children in the neighborhood.

ACT TWO: Out of the blue -we never saw him write a line before- ,the young poet wins the Goncourt Prize !His wife’s family changes overnight.Now Chotard is so proud of the writer he begins to read and urges his clerks to do the same .

ACT THREE: The winner seems to be sick and tired of working overtime (that is to say : writing) and he sees his father-in-law’s shop going bankrupt.There’s a lot of improvements to be made in this work too.So now grocery and poetry will walk hands in hands.

Only one sequence displays Renoir’s touch:when the military man ,proud of his promotion ,comes to Chotard’s place ,he finds a pacifist family,fond of art ,culture and poetry.But the rest is really a mess and most of the lines are not even funny.

You’d better take Renoir’s “On purge Bébé” if you want to have a good time.

899MB | 1h 22m | 640×496 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/E92DA7B5422E2E7/Chotard.avi
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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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