As we look forward to Woody Harrelson taking part in Ruben Östlund’s forthcoming Triangle of Sadness, the actor has booked another promising role. He’s set to re-team with his Rampart and The Messenger director Oren Moverman for a new World War II psychological thriller, Deadline reports.
Titled The Man With The Miraculous Hands, and based on Joseph Kessel’s 2004 novel, the film will tell the story of Felix Kersten, who was the physician to Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of the Nazi Party. Kersten could alleviate Himmler’s severe stomach pains with his hands using massage and manipulation. In return, Kersten bargained with Himmler to order the release of innocent prisoners condemned to die, and ended up saving thousands of lives.
Following his last two features, The Dinner and Time Out of Mind, Moverman has spent the last few years continuing to produce acclaimed American indies, including Wildlife,...
Titled The Man With The Miraculous Hands, and based on Joseph Kessel’s 2004 novel, the film will tell the story of Felix Kersten, who was the physician to Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of the Nazi Party. Kersten could alleviate Himmler’s severe stomach pains with his hands using massage and manipulation. In return, Kersten bargained with Himmler to order the release of innocent prisoners condemned to die, and ended up saving thousands of lives.
Following his last two features, The Dinner and Time Out of Mind, Moverman has spent the last few years continuing to produce acclaimed American indies, including Wildlife,...
- 4/5/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Oren Moverman is writing and directing the WWII drama.
Woody Harrelson has signed to star in an adaptation of French writer Joseph Kessel’s 1960 biographical work The Man With The Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor.
It will be produced by Paris-based Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group, the French production banner behind Sundance hit Coda, which was in turn of a remake of its French hit La Famille Belier.
Harrelson will start as the real-life figure of Felix Kersten, a Finnish-born medical professional who was reluctantly pulled into the Third Reich...
Woody Harrelson has signed to star in an adaptation of French writer Joseph Kessel’s 1960 biographical work The Man With The Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor.
It will be produced by Paris-based Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group, the French production banner behind Sundance hit Coda, which was in turn of a remake of its French hit La Famille Belier.
Harrelson will start as the real-life figure of Felix Kersten, a Finnish-born medical professional who was reluctantly pulled into the Third Reich...
- 3/30/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Woody Harrelson has been set to star in WW2 psychological thriller The Man With The Miraculous Hands by Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group production banner.
Oren Moverman is helming the project, an adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel The Man with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor. Moverman is re-teaming with Harrelson following the pair’s collaborations on pics including Rampart and The Messenger. For the latter, Moverman received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay, while Harrelson was also nominated in the supporting actor field.
Eric Jehelmann and Philippe Rousselet will produce with Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serving as executive producers.
The film depicts the titular Kersten’s remarkable true story as the physician whose therapies helped to relieve Himmler’s debilitating abdominal pain, thereby giving him extraordinary influence over one of the main architects of the Holocaust. With clever manipulations,...
Oren Moverman is helming the project, an adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel The Man with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor. Moverman is re-teaming with Harrelson following the pair’s collaborations on pics including Rampart and The Messenger. For the latter, Moverman received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay, while Harrelson was also nominated in the supporting actor field.
Eric Jehelmann and Philippe Rousselet will produce with Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serving as executive producers.
The film depicts the titular Kersten’s remarkable true story as the physician whose therapies helped to relieve Himmler’s debilitating abdominal pain, thereby giving him extraordinary influence over one of the main architects of the Holocaust. With clever manipulations,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Three time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson is set to star in the feature film adaptation of Joseph Kessel’s novel “The Man With the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor.”
Oren Moverman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “The Messenger,” is set to write and direct the film which is being produced by Jerico Films, a division of Vendome Group, the banner behind the Sundance prize-winning movie “Coda.”
The World War II psychological thriller will star Harrelson in the lead role as Felix Kersten, a Finnish-born medical professional who was reluctantly pulled into the Third Reich’s corridors of power as Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician and prisoner. Oren Moverman has signed on to write and direct.
The project marks the latest collaboration between Moverman and Harrelson, who previously teamed on “Rampart” and “The Messenger.” “The Man with the Miraculous Hands,” a Jerico Films production, will...
Oren Moverman, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of “The Messenger,” is set to write and direct the film which is being produced by Jerico Films, a division of Vendome Group, the banner behind the Sundance prize-winning movie “Coda.”
The World War II psychological thriller will star Harrelson in the lead role as Felix Kersten, a Finnish-born medical professional who was reluctantly pulled into the Third Reich’s corridors of power as Heinrich Himmler’s personal physician and prisoner. Oren Moverman has signed on to write and direct.
The project marks the latest collaboration between Moverman and Harrelson, who previously teamed on “Rampart” and “The Messenger.” “The Man with the Miraculous Hands,” a Jerico Films production, will...
- 3/30/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Woody Harrelson is set to play the real-life physician of Heinrich Himmler — known as one of the main architects of the Holocaust — in WWII psychological thriller The Man with the Miraculous Hands.
Oren Moverman will direct the feature, based on Joseph Kessel’s novel The Man with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor, reuniting with Harrelson for a third time after Rampart and The Messenger
The film comes from Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group production banner, and will be produced by Eric Jehelmann and Philippe Rousselet with Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serving ...
Oren Moverman will direct the feature, based on Joseph Kessel’s novel The Man with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor, reuniting with Harrelson for a third time after Rampart and The Messenger
The film comes from Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group production banner, and will be produced by Eric Jehelmann and Philippe Rousselet with Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serving ...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Woody Harrelson is set to play the real-life physician of Heinrich Himmler — known as one of the main architects of the Holocaust — in WWII psychological thriller The Man with the Miraculous Hands.
Oren Moverman will direct the feature, based on Joseph Kessel’s novel The Man with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor, reuniting with Harrelson for a third time after Rampart and The Messenger
The film comes from Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group production banner, and will be produced by Eric Jehelmann and Philippe Rousselet with Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serving ...
Oren Moverman will direct the feature, based on Joseph Kessel’s novel The Man with the Miraculous Hands: The Fantastic Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler’s Private Doctor, reuniting with Harrelson for a third time after Rampart and The Messenger
The film comes from Jerico Films, a division of the Vendôme Group production banner, and will be produced by Eric Jehelmann and Philippe Rousselet with Fabrice Gianfermi and Jeremy Plager serving ...
- 3/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jean-Pierre Melville’s most accomplished, most personal movie gets a new reissue. Ignored in 1969 and released in the United States only 37 years later, this somber, ultra-realistic look at the French resistance has never been equalled. Forget thrilling adventure tales with daring escapes, patriotic oaths and beautiful spies; Melville presents resistance activities in the Occupied territory as a fearful grind leading in one direction only. Criterion’s extras include an interview piece with historical operatives, who still argue points of strategy.
Army of Shadows
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 385
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 145 min. / L’Armée des ombres / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 7, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann, Paul Crauchet, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani, André Dewavrin.
Cinematography: Pierre Lhomme, Walter Wottitz
Film Editor: Françoise Bonnot
Original Music: Eric De Marsan
Written by Jean-Pierre Melville from the novel by Joseph Kessel
Produced by Jacques Dorfmann
Directed...
Army of Shadows
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 385
1969 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 145 min. / L’Armée des ombres / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 7, 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann, Paul Crauchet, Christian Barbier, Serge Reggiani, André Dewavrin.
Cinematography: Pierre Lhomme, Walter Wottitz
Film Editor: Françoise Bonnot
Original Music: Eric De Marsan
Written by Jean-Pierre Melville from the novel by Joseph Kessel
Produced by Jacques Dorfmann
Directed...
- 4/7/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Obscure Objects of Desire: The Films of Luis Buñuel is showing March 12 – May 23, 2019 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.“Luis was a jealous macho. His wife had to be a kind-of child woman who had not matured,” said Jeanne Rucar, Luis Buñuel’s wife, summing up their marriage. Rucar’s personal note has surprising bearing on the director’s oeuvre. Vicious, dreamlike, sly, witty, deviant—Buñuel the artist was all those things. Besides colorful tales of his petit bourgeois upbringing and his ascetic adult life, what truly fascinates is his surrealism. Buñuel left Spain for Paris five years before Un chien andalou (1929), and the French Surrealists embraced his work (even thought he claimed not to know about them while conceiving his debut). L'âge d'or (1930), his second collaboration with Salvador Dalí, followed, to critical acclaim.What does this have to do with women? In her book on abstract expressionist art in New York,...
- 3/24/2019
- MUBI
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le corbeau (1943) is showing November 20 – December 19, and Quai des orfèvres (1947) from November 21 – December 20, 2018 on Mubi in the United States.Henri-Georges ClouzotOn September 3, 1939 France, alongside Great Britain, declared war on Germany. As pronounced May 8, 1945 by Charles de Gaulle, president of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, Europe’s World War II conflict was over. Between these years, years that saw the demoralizing German occupation of de Gaulle’s homeland, battle lines were heartily affirmed and mightily preserved. There was, in this tumultuous time, little room for partisan ambiguity—it was a black and white world of Allied and Axis powers, of us versus them. Within this context of chaos and violence, Niort-born Henri-Georges Clouzot advanced his filmmaking career, beginning with screenwriting efforts in the early 1930s and progressing to his first feature as a solo director, L’assassin habite... au 21 (The Murderer Lives at Number 21). Released in...
- 11/20/2018
- MUBI
Jean-Pierre Melville in his own film, Two Men in Manhattan“A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything”—Yukio MishimaA voracious cinephile in his early youth, Jean-Pierre Grumbach's daily intake of films was interrupted by the Second World War when he enlisted in the Ffl (Forces Français Libres) and adopted the nom de guerre by which he's still known to these days: Jean-Pierre Melville. A tribute to his literary hero, Hermann Melville, and his novel Pierre: or the Ambiguities, the director would have his name officially changed after the war. The latter was to shape and inform many of his films and arguably all of his world-view, characterized by a sort of ethical cynicism where anti-fascism is understood as a moral duty rather than an act of heroic courage. Profoundly anti-rhetoric and filled with a terse dignity, his films about the Resistance, Army of Shadows (1969) above all,...
- 5/1/2017
- MUBI
Marc Allégret: From André Gide lover to Simone Simon mentor (photo: Marc Allégret) (See previous post: "Simone Simon Remembered: Sex Kitten and Femme Fatale.") Simone Simon became a film star following the international critical and financial success of the 1934 romantic drama Lac aux Dames, directed by her self-appointed mentor – and alleged lover – Marc Allégret.[1] The son of an evangelical missionary, Marc Allégret (born on December 22, 1900, in Basel, Switzerland) was to have become a lawyer. At age 16, his life took a different path as a result of his romantic involvement – and elopement to London – with his mentor and later "adoptive uncle" André Gide (1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature), more than 30 years his senior and married to Madeleine Rondeaux for more than two decades. In various forms – including a threesome with painter Théo Van Rysselberghe's daughter Elisabeth – the Allégret-Gide relationship remained steady until the late '20s and their trip to...
- 2/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Before Fifty Shades of Grey’s release this weekend, we take a look at 10 other Bdsm-based films which shocked, stimulated and spanked their way to notoriety
Luis Buñel’s surreal classic sees a middle-class housewife Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) electing to become a daytime prostitute while her husband is at work. While there is some brothel-based kink, the key Bdsm content lies in the dream sequences, in which Séverine fantasised about an S&M relationship with her husband. Based upon Joseph Kessel’s 1928 novel, Belle de Jour would inspire a real-life escort, her books and the UK TV series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, which featured several S&M scenes.
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Luis Buñel’s surreal classic sees a middle-class housewife Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) electing to become a daytime prostitute while her husband is at work. While there is some brothel-based kink, the key Bdsm content lies in the dream sequences, in which Séverine fantasised about an S&M relationship with her husband. Based upon Joseph Kessel’s 1928 novel, Belle de Jour would inspire a real-life escort, her books and the UK TV series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, which featured several S&M scenes.
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- 2/10/2015
- by Anna Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
Before Fifty Shades of Grey’s release this weekend, we take a look at 10 other Bdsm-based films which shocked, stimulated and spanked their way to notoriety
Luis Buñel’s surreal classic sees a middle-class housewife Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) electing to become a daytime prostitute while her husband is at work. While there is some brothel-based kink, the key Bdsm content lies in the dream sequences, in which Séverine fantasised about an S&M relationship with her husband. Based upon Joseph Kessel’s 1928 novel, Belle de Jour would inspire a real-life escort, her books and the UK TV series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, which featured several S&M scenes.
Continue reading...
Luis Buñel’s surreal classic sees a middle-class housewife Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) electing to become a daytime prostitute while her husband is at work. While there is some brothel-based kink, the key Bdsm content lies in the dream sequences, in which Séverine fantasised about an S&M relationship with her husband. Based upon Joseph Kessel’s 1928 novel, Belle de Jour would inspire a real-life escort, her books and the UK TV series Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, which featured several S&M scenes.
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- 2/10/2015
- by Anna Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
I promise – it wasn’t my plan to have seven of the ten films on this portion of the list focus on World War II. But, if we look back at the biggest international conflicts of all time, World War II is the one that provides the most opportunity. It’s a chance for a number of different countries to look at the same war from different perspectives. In this portion alone, there’s a French film, a German film, a Hungarian film, a couple British/American films, and a few American films – all about varied aspects of World War II.
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40. The Killing Fields (1984)
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Conflict: Cambodian Civil War
For all the films made about World War II and larger scale conflicts, the few that depict smaller, more concentrated ones are sometimes more effective. Roland Joffé’s 1984 drama The Killing Fields hones in on Cambodia,...
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40. The Killing Fields (1984)
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Conflict: Cambodian Civil War
For all the films made about World War II and larger scale conflicts, the few that depict smaller, more concentrated ones are sometimes more effective. Roland Joffé’s 1984 drama The Killing Fields hones in on Cambodia,...
- 6/10/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
The fourth in a short series celebrating the films of the Pathé-Natan company, 1926-1934.
Apart from the innovative films of Gremillon and Ozep, and the super-epics of Raymond Bernard (available from Criterion), Pathé-Natan produced a lot of slick commercial properties decorated with much the same kind of melodrama and glamor as Hollywood movies of the era.
L'équipage (1935) was one of the last Pathé-Natan productions before the studio went bankrupt amid charges of swindling and mismanagement, and they spent lavishly on it. By now, the influx of German talent that had contributed much to the style of French cinema had become a massive flood, as the Nazis had banned Jews from working in cinema. A talent exodus resulted, and Paris was the first stop for nearly everybody. And so Anatole Litvak, eventually bound for Hollywood, pitched up in the City of Light, where, for instance, he made Mayerling...
Apart from the innovative films of Gremillon and Ozep, and the super-epics of Raymond Bernard (available from Criterion), Pathé-Natan produced a lot of slick commercial properties decorated with much the same kind of melodrama and glamor as Hollywood movies of the era.
L'équipage (1935) was one of the last Pathé-Natan productions before the studio went bankrupt amid charges of swindling and mismanagement, and they spent lavishly on it. By now, the influx of German talent that had contributed much to the style of French cinema had become a massive flood, as the Nazis had banned Jews from working in cinema. A talent exodus resulted, and Paris was the first stop for nearly everybody. And so Anatole Litvak, eventually bound for Hollywood, pitched up in the City of Light, where, for instance, he made Mayerling...
- 3/29/2012
- MUBI
While New Yorkers have plenty of opportunity to see classic films on the big screen, you'll be hard pressed to find a lineup as front to back awesome as the Film Society Of Lincoln Center's "15 For 15: Celebrating Rialto Pictures."
The series honors the reknowned arthouse distribution shingle founded in 1997 that has brought some of the best known (and previously unknown) classics of cinema to American audiences. And the selection here by programmers Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern represents the breadth and scope of the films Rialto has put their stamp on, ranging from the French New Wave ("Breathless") to film noir ("Rififi") to comedy ("Billy Liar") and more. There is something here for everybody and with the series kicking off tonight, we've got a special prize for some lucky readers.
Courtesy of Film Society Of Lincoln Center, we've got a copy of the excellent Rialto DVD...
The series honors the reknowned arthouse distribution shingle founded in 1997 that has brought some of the best known (and previously unknown) classics of cinema to American audiences. And the selection here by programmers Scott Foundas, Eric Di Bernardo and Adrienne Halpern represents the breadth and scope of the films Rialto has put their stamp on, ranging from the French New Wave ("Breathless") to film noir ("Rififi") to comedy ("Billy Liar") and more. There is something here for everybody and with the series kicking off tonight, we've got a special prize for some lucky readers.
Courtesy of Film Society Of Lincoln Center, we've got a copy of the excellent Rialto DVD...
- 3/19/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
He was one of the few directors of war movies with first-hand experience of conflict
Pierre Schoendoerffer, who has died aged 83, was one of the few directors of war films who had actually lived out the adventures of his soldier heroes. The American film-makers William Wellman, Sam Fuller and Oliver Stone did so, but no other director explored the same subject as single-mindedly and doggedly as Schoendoerffer.
His experiences of combat as a military cameraman and as a prisoner of war during the conflict in Indochina marked his output, most directly La 317ème Section (The 317th Platoon, 1965), about a doomed French unit; Le Crabe-Tambour (The Drummer Crab, 1977), about French officers involved in the fall of the French empire after the second world war; his Oscar-winning television documentary La Section Anderson (The Anderson Platoon, 1967), which followed the lives of Us soldiers in Vietnam; and Diên Biên Phú (1992), about a Us war...
Pierre Schoendoerffer, who has died aged 83, was one of the few directors of war films who had actually lived out the adventures of his soldier heroes. The American film-makers William Wellman, Sam Fuller and Oliver Stone did so, but no other director explored the same subject as single-mindedly and doggedly as Schoendoerffer.
His experiences of combat as a military cameraman and as a prisoner of war during the conflict in Indochina marked his output, most directly La 317ème Section (The 317th Platoon, 1965), about a doomed French unit; Le Crabe-Tambour (The Drummer Crab, 1977), about French officers involved in the fall of the French empire after the second world war; his Oscar-winning television documentary La Section Anderson (The Anderson Platoon, 1967), which followed the lives of Us soldiers in Vietnam; and Diên Biên Phú (1992), about a Us war...
- 3/16/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Jean-Pierre Melville (October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973), was a French film director often looked upon as the ‘king crime-noir films’. His body of work and mise-en-scene style heavily influenced Scorsese, John Woo and Tarantino to name but a few. Under-stated and minimalist, he managed the difficult process of making an artistic film also commercially viable. Melville would control everything from set design, writing the script, and running the camera, mixing obsessive gangster pastiches with restrained, precise and sensitive symbolism.
Described as the ‘Poet of the underworld’ and the ‘garlic gangster’, he was considered to be the “father of the nouvelle vague”, a major influence on the French New Wave movement. But it was the American gangster films of the ’30s and ’40s starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart that really caught his imagination. Melville recreated the genre for a new wave audience using weapons, trench coats and fedora hats, to shape a characteristic look in his movies.
Described as the ‘Poet of the underworld’ and the ‘garlic gangster’, he was considered to be the “father of the nouvelle vague”, a major influence on the French New Wave movement. But it was the American gangster films of the ’30s and ’40s starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart that really caught his imagination. Melville recreated the genre for a new wave audience using weapons, trench coats and fedora hats, to shape a characteristic look in his movies.
- 3/13/2012
- by Matthew Gunn
- Obsessed with Film
I first watched Belle de Jour back in March of 2009. Unfortunately I didn't write about it at the time, which gives me nothing to look back on as far as my interpretation of what I saw. Considering we're talking about the work of surrealist director Luis Bunuel it would have been nice to refer back to something, but sometimes life gives us oranges. What I watched then was a rented Netflix copy of the previously released Miramax DVD version of the film, which, to my recollection, didn't include any special features. Fortunately Criterion is here to save us on that front with an excellent high definition transfer and uncompressed monaural soundtrack, but on top of that an outstanding audio commentary and one specific featurette I found incredibly enlightening. As for that first viewing of Belle de Jour, I remember having a conversation about the film's ending and confusion over what...
- 1/17/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Chicago – Imagine working on the most ambitious, personal artistic endeavor of your life only to watch the most unusual circumstances of fate tear it away from the public eye. Such was the case with 1969’s excellent “Army of Shadows,” a film that took 37 years to find an audience stateside. Released in U.S. theaters for the first time in 2006, Jean-Pierre Melville’s fascinating tale of the French Resistance has now been given the Criterion Blu-ray upgrade and firmly stands as the excellent piece of work that it should have been recognized as for the last several decades.
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Like its characters, “Army of Shadows” fell victim to politics, revolution, misunderstanding, and a bit of propaganda. The film was released in France shortly after a quelled uprising in 1968 had turned President De Gaulle into an enemy of the cultural revolution. The immensely-powerful Cahier du Cinema read the film as a...
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Like its characters, “Army of Shadows” fell victim to politics, revolution, misunderstanding, and a bit of propaganda. The film was released in France shortly after a quelled uprising in 1968 had turned President De Gaulle into an enemy of the cultural revolution. The immensely-powerful Cahier du Cinema read the film as a...
- 1/21/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Many might find L'armée des ombres extremely boring. In fact, for a film about the French resistance against Nazi occupation during WWII (1939-1945), the film pratically doesn't have any action scenes. However, if you're patient enough, you'll appreciate L'armée des ombres (which is adapted from a novel of Joseph Kessel) that explores the bottom of the leading protagonists' heart.
Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura), an engineer and a suspected resistant, is put behind bars by the French police. Afterwards, he's handed to the Gestapo's headquarters in Paris because he knows a lot of things. Philippe manages to escape and flee to Marseille in order to meet with fellow resistants. Moreover, he'll eliminate the traitor who caused his imprisonment. However, the Gestapo will try to not only arrest Philippe, but also his companions.
Let's be honest: the pace of Jean-Pierre Melville's film is really slow from the beginning to the end.
Philippe Gerbier (Lino Ventura), an engineer and a suspected resistant, is put behind bars by the French police. Afterwards, he's handed to the Gestapo's headquarters in Paris because he knows a lot of things. Philippe manages to escape and flee to Marseille in order to meet with fellow resistants. Moreover, he'll eliminate the traitor who caused his imprisonment. However, the Gestapo will try to not only arrest Philippe, but also his companions.
Let's be honest: the pace of Jean-Pierre Melville's film is really slow from the beginning to the end.
- 1/5/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Award-winning French writer Maurice Druon has died, aged 90.
Druon, who co-wrote one of France's most patriotic anthems during World War II, died on Tuesday in Paris after suffering cardiovascular problems.
He co-wrote Chant des Partisans with Joseph Kessel in 1943, which briefly became the country's unofficial anthem, next to La Marseillaise.
In 1948, Druon received France's most acclaimed literary award, the Prix Goncourt (The Goncourt Prize) - given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year" - for his novel Les grandes familles.
His writing earned him the 30th seat of the Academie francaise (French Academy) in 1966, where he was elected to oversee the French language and usage for the state - a post he held for nearly four decades.
He also served as Minister of Cultural Affairs in 1973 and 1974 in Pierre Messmer's cabinet, and as a deputy of Paris from 1978 to 1981.
Paying tribute to Druon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called him “a great writer, a great Resistance fighter, a great politician and a great soul".
Druon, who co-wrote one of France's most patriotic anthems during World War II, died on Tuesday in Paris after suffering cardiovascular problems.
He co-wrote Chant des Partisans with Joseph Kessel in 1943, which briefly became the country's unofficial anthem, next to La Marseillaise.
In 1948, Druon received France's most acclaimed literary award, the Prix Goncourt (The Goncourt Prize) - given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year" - for his novel Les grandes familles.
His writing earned him the 30th seat of the Academie francaise (French Academy) in 1966, where he was elected to oversee the French language and usage for the state - a post he held for nearly four decades.
He also served as Minister of Cultural Affairs in 1973 and 1974 in Pierre Messmer's cabinet, and as a deputy of Paris from 1978 to 1981.
Paying tribute to Druon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called him “a great writer, a great Resistance fighter, a great politician and a great soul".
- 4/16/2009
- WENN
CANNES -- A brooding Alain Delon prowled into Cannes on Tuesday to announce that he will star in an adaptation of Joseph Kessel's classic French novel The Lion and play the title role in the original cop miniseries Frank Riva, both for pubcaster France 2. Both productions will be written by Philippe Setbon. Delon is co-producing both programs, the first time he has done so for television works despite having produced more than 20 movies. Riva is produced by PM Audiovisuel and is co-produced with Italy's RAI, Germany's ZDF and Swiss pubcaster TSR. The three 90-minute episodes are due to begin shooting in February, with a total budget of about 10 million ($9.8 million), nearly two-thirds coming from France 2.
- 10/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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