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Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris’ suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who’s been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.

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Jim Thompson wrote dark thrillers that were turned into some superb films (The Getaway-Peckinpah, 1972; Pop. 1280, as Coup de torchon-Tavernier, 1981; The Grifters-Frears, 1990). In 1979, Alain Corneau took A Hell of a Woman and made Serie noire, one of the most remarkable French crime films. The tone is very bleak, and there is a strong element of surrealistic humor. Georges Perec co wrote the script and he contributed many nonsense words and phrases to Frank Poupart’s role

Frank is a small time salesman in a Paris industrial suburb who supplements his meager earnings by stealing from his boss, Staplin. The latter has Frank tossed in jail, whereupon Mona, the seventeen-year-old girl Frank’s fallen for, pays Staplin to have Frank released. Mona’s aunt, who has been prostituting the girl to the neighbourhood men, now becomes a tempting target for robbery.

Marie Trintignant has made five pictures with Corneau; she has a dark, brooding quality (big black eyes) that is perfectly suited to this story. She plays the part of guardian-angel-cum-slut wonderfully. Bernard Blier is Staplin, the oily, dishonest boss to a T. Andreas Katsulas has a ball with his character, a guy so dumb you don’t know how he functions in this world. Patrick Dewaere, who was to kill himself only three years after making the film, is astonishing as Poupart. Just look at the desperation behind the cool exterior, the wild things he does–smashing his head against the hood of his car, or almost drowning in the bathtub. There is a savagery about his work that you don’t find in other French actors.

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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The third collaboration between the Swiss director Tanner and the English writer John Berger follows a group of young people in Geneva who are searching for new directions in their lives after the failure of the revolutionary hopes of the 1960s. A former labor activist takes a job as a gardener and handyman with some free-spirited farmers, setting up a school in a greenhouse for the neighborhood kids, while his wife continues to work in a factory. A disillusioned radical turns to gambling, while having interesting conversations with his girlfriend, an adventurous student of Tantrism. A history teacher uses radical methods in the classroom to foster socialist ideas in his students. He hooks up with a grocery store cashier who undercharges poor people and steals food from the store to help her aging friend, a veteran of the Resistance.

The interweaving stories are presented in an elliptical style that gradually creates a gently humorous image of youthful idealism in confrontation with difficult realities. Interspersed throughout the film are brief Brechtian interludes in black-and-white that offer what appear to be subjective moments of truth, with cryptic dialogue or narration. The film’s unconventional approach requires the viewer’s close attention, but one’s patience is well rewarded. This little world of individual resistance to the status quo is portrayed with lightness, compassion, and clarity.

Best among the performances are Jean-Luc Bideau and Myriam Mézière as the cynical gambler Max and his endearingly off-the-wall Tantric partner Madeleine, and Jacques Denis as Marco, the mischievous teacher. (For some reason, all the major characters’ names begin with the letter M: a reference to Marx?) The film doesn’t shirk from depicting its characters’ political ideas and dimensions, and it’s one of the decisive differences between this excellent movie and the later American film (and overrated mush) The Big Chill. There is no condescension here, no simplification. Looking at the 60s generation with humor does not mean indulging in mockery. Jonah (the title refers to the newborn son of one of the characters) feels remarkably true to life. And although some of the narrative strategies seem a bit sketchy, this only serves to make the picture’s humanistic outlook more satisfying.

1.87GB | 1h 50mn | 758×474 | mkv

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Language:French
Subtitles:French, English, German, Russian, Spanish

The post Alain Tanner – Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000 AKA Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Forty-year old Abel travels to France from Quebec on a pilgrimage to explore the mother country and the land of his ancestors. As he travels around and does all the things tourists are supposed to do, his expectations and perceptions are shattered and he is forced to revise his romanticized image of France. As he travels to see the places where Rimbaud was born, lived, and died, he meets two women who show him the warmth and kindness he was searching for.

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Jean Pierre Lefebvre – Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort AKA The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.