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An incredible story - The Window, Ted Tezlaff (1949)


In New York, in a huge building. This summer evening, it is very hot in the apartment of Woodry. The son of the house, Tommy can not sleep in his room, settled for the night on the balcony. In his sleep, he saw the stairs that gives vis-à-vis, a murder ... When he tells his story, his parents do not believe. But the neighbor across the street knows that the child saw his gesture ...

A little known gem that this modest RKO production which finds its originality by the transposition of the story The boy who cried wolf in the world of film noir. We discover the misadventures Young Tommy (Bobby Driscoll) with a tendency to invent stories will play well when tours will end up witnessing a murder committed by true neighbors and no one will believe. The first part develops the newspaper of the young hero through the difficulties facing his parents his imagination and used it to illustrate an axis in the world of ordinary boy with building this hall and stairs of the buildings very common New York .

Bobby Driscoll boils engaging and verbal machine gun flow deploys a nice kid energy storyteller and his distress when not Vintage for the crime he has seen real results in a lot of empathy for the misunderstanding of the adult world. The script builds all the elements maliciously against Tommy to his surroundings constantly put in doubt his accusations, while the murder itself announces the second game with a terrific burst of violence by adopting the perspective of the child.

The film thus follows in its aesthetic and narrative dimension of the original tale. Entire second part of the film develops and the elements of early (cons dive from the point of view of the child, from top to bottom exploration of the building) in a dark side and terrifying to the exact form of nightmarish imagery neat seen previously.

The film takes a classical imagery of film noir with its dark alleys and menacing, but its imposing buildings seen in the eyes of Tommy he inspire a heavy atmosphere that immerses us in the heart of childish terrors. Moreover, the threat embodied in a Machiavellian Paul Stewart (no stranger to the role of villain in the film noir as the famous Fourth speed Aldrich) composing a memorable villain. We are constantly surprised by the differences in violence and cruelty that the film indulges toward the child, anticipating 5 years before some time The Night of the Hunter .

Tezlaff former cinematographer Ted moved on to directing it also intends to push up the tension with its confusing frames, compositions dark plans where every dark corner is a hidden danger for Tommy. Tension mounts permanently to a memorable final chase where the boy is facing a lot of resources alone and helpless at his pursuers. Although as in any tale, all's well that ends well, the film has taken in areas darn uncomfortable with its different variations. Original and masterfully executed, a success story like that.

Released on DVD Zone 2 in French by Editions Montparnasse Collection RKO

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Silver of the old - Lo Scopone Scientifico Luigi Comencini (1972) The


An old American socialite (Bette Davis) travels the world his fancy, and in each country, she likes to face the people of slums in large parts of maps to prove that she is rich because she is smarter. Somehow, his fortune would be deserved. His favorite game is the scopa game memory and reflection.
But the deal is flawed precisely because it is very rich. As this is a money game and each time it doubles the bet, it is certain ultimately to be able to continue indefinitely, and therefore win overwhelmingly.
Peppino (Alberto Sordi) and Antonietta (Silvana Mangano) are his opponents, but also servants, friends, in an endless party where all episodes of Rome is a slum contributes to challenge the old.

is what is undoubtedly one of comedy's most ferocious and successful of the great Luigi Comencini. The film anticipates a strong future great masterpieces of Italian comedy namely Ugly, Dirty and Bad Ettore Scola through its double-edged vision on the status of the poor and the behaviors it causes. The difference is in the tone since in the waste of humanity portrayed by Scola Scola Comencini opposes him an amused look real and endearing on its pair of heroes, their families and communities in the slum.

The first part of the film thus describes the material difficulties of any kind faced by the heroes and could be resolved by a victory in the cards face old. Misery room is shown without complacency, but in a very real with a good touch of humor to lighten the whole, as opposed to opulent luxury in which the owner lives ubcarbée by Betty Davis. Alberto Sordi in and blundering simpleton husband is excellent as usual and form a perfect duo with Silvana Mangano in more ambivalent role. According to several parties where the couple is ridiculed, big turning point in the middle of the movie where they are in position to snatch a fortune in the old.

is where even more specifically one of the great themes of the film, class relations (in fact the choice foreign players with Betty Davis and Joseph Cotten playing the rich is not innocent). The couple intoxicated by the fortune finally smiled the game continues as the honest intentions of the old woman smiling and affable lady shows her true face of cruel shrew unable to accept defeat and using all its power to avoid it . Bette Davis excels (admittedly quite young but more pushing his legendary art of transmutation by far the ugly makeup and matured even more giving tunes harpy) in old skin manipulative and falsely friendly play for much of the extreme tension released by the party whose scopa rules to speak more spectator Italian but whose blood is largely communicative.

Comencini shows how wealth can go to your head people of modest means through the character of Silviana Mangano, intoxicated by the issue and unable to stop even when the old is dying, the ratio dominant / dominated speaking in their inability to stop some of their own making. This relationship between the old and the couple very well of heroes is ambiguous and far from black and white, each showing a shocking behavior at a given moment and revealing the shortcomings of each class by greed, pride and a sense of human good contrast between them all eventually.

Comencini issue is a much finer work than the premise suggested. Although his love of the characters do not dare make him a darker conclusion (although funny it is not very positive either) succeeds where one of his most original and brilliant, jewel of the all'italiana Comedia.

Released on DVD in region 2 French Studio Canal

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Splendored Thing - Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Henry King (1955)


1949, civil war raged in China and refugees fleeing the conflict Chinese arrive daily in Hong Kong. Widow of a Nationalist officer, the Eurasian doctor Han Suyin is devoted entirely to his work at the Victoria Hospital. She falls in love with an American war correspondent Mark Elliott. Mark is married but living apart from his wife. Their affair caused a stir around them ... Twelve

after The Song of Bernadette , Jennifer Jones found the film's earned him his only Oscar with this flamboyant melodrama. In his pitch, the scenario does not seem to stand out at all from the wave of melodrama invading American cinema during the 50 same for this is the interracial romance between a Western and Asian already addressed in the misfire Sayonara Joshua Logan. The unfolding of the story is rather predictable to anyone who has dabbled in the genre and all seems without any real asperity at first sight. Yet it is this key in any restraint and sensitivity, smooth falsely makes the movie so disturbing.

King Henry will draw on the emotional power of his story in the actual source that inspires. The film is actually adapted from a novel by Han Suyin, Eurasian life lived a tumultuous romance adultery with a corresponding English war. The screenplay by John Patrick gum all the most sour of Han Suyin (she documents in her autobiography Winter Love including his bisexuality) in order to retain sensitivity to edge of the novel. The story depicts the encounter between Han Suyin (Jennifer Jones) Eurasian young widow moved to Hong Kong and dedicated to his job as a doctor and Mark Elliott (William Holden) American correspondent separated from his wife.

Everything seems to oppose them. She abandoned all her love life after widowhood to devote himself to his task (including the thousands Chinese refugees arriving in poverty in Hong Kong) and do not dream of returning to China to bring its knowledge to serve his country. He is a shadow of passage to keep the lucidity and detachment of a journalist on the background and the dramatic event it is obliged to cover. Their resolutions shatter the budding romance with them.

falsely mawkish treatment of this passion by Henry King is actually a marvel of subtlety. Too long detached from worldly pleasures Jennifer Jones finally yields fast enough even if she leaves Holden and cache it in the image Runner believed to guess (the true image of Holden playing there on it) will actually act as a lovesick throughout history. So it's a romance story without apparently taking place and worn by King Henry the alchemy of his connects the star couple radiant romantic sequences.

The grace of his staging, the photo of Leon Shamroy magnifying its technicolor paradise that Hong Kong 40s and magical score by Alfred Newman raise high the most beautiful moments like the interviews on the Hill a two-stroke, where time seems to freeze. Jennifer Jones completely abandons any flamboyance of his game as we know it in productions O'Selznick embodiment of a woman while grace and restraint in Asian port. This duality of the origins of Han Yi expressed in this capacity after his Chinese culture and western side just waiting to ignite.

We see Holden and rub without fear as she thinks being away from such feelings now, but gradually the armor cracks. King brilliantly brings the moment when everything changes when returning to the beach where Han Yi Mark suddenly asked him to light a cigarette (it was previously denied), the symbol of victory for his side not yielding to more European conveniences to finally live. Holden is close and lights his cigarette started pasting his own, their horns bare face each other and the fade that follows is far more sensual, enigmatic and full of meaning that a more explicit love scene.

tone smooth and cliché you could feel comes primarily from the King will put his lover in a sort of bubble or anything there than the other. There is thus long walks in the Hong Kong dream (but also passages in China and Macao), where exchange hugs, kisses, words of love and long languid eyes. The problems led to separate our relationship are many, but still covered with a grain designed to demonstrate to what extent they are inseparable. The issue of adultery, which can hold only sometimes in some melodramatic moral issue is dealt with by philosophy and quickly evacuated. Holden is married and his wife refuses to divorce? Whatever Han Yi is a reason and will only warm even if its presence can not be legally united. The notable Western (whose condescension is highlighted at the reception scene at the beginning of film) chatting and trying to stop the career of Han Yi ? She will still join in Macao on the time of his stay. The Chinese accuse accuses him of abandoning his commitment to the benefit of her romance? She admits and plunges over beautiful, no external force will overcome their history.

no destiny except in the form of historical and political drama surrounding them. The song gives the film's original title Love Is a Many Splendored Thing- (written by Sammy Fain and sung by the Four Aces the film's success to him much the song will be a tube and rewarded at Oscar and music) back loop and a sign of fate obvious heavy on history.

Every moment must be lived as if it were unique and the last in which this romance that avoids the silliness exacerbated by the grace of William Holden and Jennifer Jones, both of the tops of their photogenic. So this strong bond that enabled them to resist all that will unite them now beyond death in a superb final scene on the famous hill where memories of words and the presence of the absent (and a beautiful butterfly with a symbol) will give the other the strength to continue living.


Released on DVD Zone 2 French at Fox

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Player - Caroline Bottaro (2009)


An island. A woman on her bike. Helen disappears from her home to begin his day as a cleaner in a hotel. Upon entering a room, she overhears a couple playing chess. Fascinated by the power and intimacy that emerge from this scene, she'll get excited for this game obsessively, endangering everything that was his life.

A nice surprise that the first movie that shows surprising pitch Sandrine Bonnaire, daily maid dull see his life transformed when she discovered a passion for chess. This frame serves as a trigger to several exciting themes, while provoking a surprising fervor taking over the sports movie (it is surprising to feel emotions at the Rocky during the latter part of the film in the tournament) during the progression and gradually gained the confidence of heroin.

The film questions the discrepancy that can cause intellectual awakening, the birth of a passion with a more mundane surroundings. Sandrine Bonnaire and really carried away by something for the first time in his life finds it hard to join this craze with his family and his job more ordinary. The other characters, very well written (including an excellent Renaud Francis in the role of husband) also expressed their incomprehension at her, and this opposition gives the film a very successful social dimension. Without knowing it, by discovering a passion she has real talent, Helen rises well above the fray at his expense, and is finally "different" and "offset" against his associates every day. Thus the strategic and military failures (most used when approaching this game the movies) is completely erased in favor of the more social and feminist, including the emphasis on the figure of the Queen (the most powerful piece of gaming).

Sandrine Bonnaire delivers a stunning performance, her face lights up at the start so detached as and as the film progresses and she asserts in her art. She who has the habit of seeing in very dramatic roles (though there are exceptions of course like the beautiful Miss of Lioret that made it a romantic heroine) is radiant in this more positive note. Caroline Bottaro drives the point by multiplying the playful visual tricks to show the invasion of failures in his mind. Among the best ideas, our heroine launched in the imaginary parts with crumbs on a checkered tablecloth during dinner at a restaurant, or on a checkered floor tiles for a tile that same household taking a uniform color when she starts to doubt .

As in any movie "sport", a mentor is needed, here brilliantly portrayed by Kevin Kline Dr. gruff and lonely. Once again, Caroline Bottaro discusses their relationship with accuracy, avoiding the expected love story (without neglecting the mutual attraction experienced watermark) and the easy pathos through Kline's disease. The staging of chess is very successful. They aroused the interest of insiders and others (who will find hard to get started after the film), alternating maneuvers on the plates with the reactions of players, strained or amused. It is so taken by the party as much by the content of the game itself than the content of suspense and drama of the situation (going t make it?).


The party which concludes the film pushes the parallel with the pattern of sports movie using all the tricks possible to strengthen the narrative tension. The performance of Helen is an internal dialogue and voice-overs, the use of flashbacks and a nice idea of telepathy between Kevin Kline and Sandrine Bonnaire. An amazing surprise is the casting with the discreet presence of Jennifer Beals in a trigger and it is difficult not to draw a parallel with his role as worship Flashdance where she also went out of his condition by his gift for dance. Maybe it is totally unintentional coincidence but it offers additional depth to the key feminist film. One of the beautiful French Recent successes Caroline Bottaro which has still not responded. Hopefully soon!

Released on DVD from Studio Canal