Synopsis:
One day Hélène, happily married to Alain, sees her husband reading a telegram signed by a mysterious “Minou”. Soon Alain goes on a business trip to London and brings back his young and pretty relative named Michèle. Tormented by jealousy but still uncertain about the nature of Michèle and Alain’s relationships, Hélène tries to insinuate herself into the girl’s life, – with unforeseen consequences.

Jeanne Moreau’s film debut.

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The post Jean Stelli – Dernier amour AKA Last Love (1949) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Truffaut and Godard gave a bad name to the “quality” French cinema that preceded them. This film was one of their pet examples of what they saw as staid, boring, unadventurous cinéma de papa. Without an axe to grind, it is actually a breathtakingly bold modernization of the Faust legend, ravishing to look at with its highly stylized sets (Trauner on LSD) and containing multi-layered undercurrents, including a message on the unthinking destructiveness of youth which seems almost like a prescient reply to its New Wave critics.

2.12GB | 2h 04m | 754×566 | mkv

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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A leading member of the French cinema’s avant-garde movement and the director of the Impressionist classic Coeur fidèle (1923), Jean Epstein broke with his more modernist colleagues in the late 1920s to make documentaries and fiction films grounded in the realities of everyday life. Before that evolution, however, Epstein filmed this adaptation of two Edgar Allan Poe stories: “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839) and “The Oval Portrait” (1850). The film’s significance lies not so much in its fidelity to Poe’s stories as in its atmospheric evocation of the author’s gothic sensibility. Misty, fog-shrouded scenes, slow-motion photography, markedly low camera angles, unhurried panning and tracking shots, intricate lighting, and numerous other camera tricks lend themselves to eerie supernatural effects. “Since the French Impressionist school has always considered the cinema to be like a visual symphony, we might call this film by Epstein the cinematic equivalent of Debussy’s works,” observed Henri Langlois, film historian and founder of the Cinemathèque Française, in Paris. “The actors were merely objects.”

Publication excerpt from In Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum
of Modern Art by Steven Higgins, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006, p. 130.

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Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge. Her chance comes when she accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and manipulates younger girls to support her claims of seeing spirits. The town’s minister and politicians want a cause: ridding the town of witchcraft is the ideal repression. John too, is accused; Abigail offers him a way to avoid hanging. Elisabeth has her own confession.

3.08GB | 2 h 26 min | 768×560 | mkv

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Subtitles:English, French

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Considering that it was made during a bleak and distressing period for France, Le Ciel est à vous is an astonishingly uplifting film with a message of unfettered hope for the future. It is not difficult to read director Jean Grémillon’s allegorical call to arms behind the rather anodyne tale about a Lindbergh-esque exploit, based on the real-life story of Andrée Dupeyron, the wife of a garage owner in Mont-de-Marsan. Released in February 1944, a few months before the Liberation, the film was enormously popular in France, galvanising the efforts of the Resistance and their covert supporters with its inspiring subtext. Although Jean Grémillon would go on to make three more notable films, Le Ciel est à vous was his last commercial success, the highpoint of his career before a rapid decline into obscurity.

Le Ciel est à vous is significant for two reasons. Firstly, it is a rare example of a French social drama, using a strikingly neo-realist approach, with real locations and down-to-Earth characters to convincingly depict a French community in the mid-1940s. This makes a stark contrast with the contrived studio-bound melodramas which were far more prevalent at the time. More significant is its distinctly feminist slant, which is unusual, if not unprecedented, for a film of this era. As in many of Grémillon’s previous films, it is a woman who is the prime mover in the story whilst the main male character plays a lesser, more subservient role.

This portrayal of women is in direct opposition to the opinion of the Vichy government, which insisted that the woman’s place was in the home, looking after the husband and children. In this film, the woman, Thérèse Gauthier (magnificently portrayed by Madeleine Renaud), is a free spirit who dominates her husband and neglects her children in order to pursue her own dream. Whilst this is perhaps not the most positive portrayal of female independence, it effectively makes the point that women have a right to be accorded equal status with men and, like their male counterparts, should be allowed to pursue their ambitions rather than feel obliged to tie themselves to the kitchen sink. It’s a provocative statement when you consider that, in France, women were not eligible to vote until July 1944, some months after the film was released.

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