La Chartreuse de Parme (1948)

Réalisateur:

Christian-Jaque

Scénaristes:

Stendhal (novel) and
Christian-Jaque (screenplay)

Date de sortie:

1948 (Turkey)

Intrigue:

Fabrice del Dongo, a young archbishop, gives his all to romance rather than to the Church, creating complications for everyone around...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Escape | Prison | Aunt | Clergy

Récompenses:

1 win

Avis des utilisateurs:

Fine, if overlong Stendhal adaptation

Ensemble

Gérard Philipe	...	Le marquis Fabrice del Dongo (as Gerard Philipe)
María Casares	...	La duchesse Gina de San Severina (as Maria Casares)
Lucien Coëdel	...	Rassi, le chef de la police (as Lucien Coedel)
Louis Salou	...	Le prince Ernest IV
Louis Seigner	...	Grillo - le gardien de la Tour Farnese
Tullio Carminati	...	Le comte Mosca, le premier ministre
Renée Faure	...	Clelia Conti
Enrico Glori	...	Gilletti - un acteur de théâtre
Aldo Silvani	...	Le général Conti - le gouverneur de la prison de Parme
Attilio Dottesio	...	Ferrante Palla - un médecin conspirateur
Claudio Gora	...	Le marquis Crescenzi - un parvenu
Evelina Paoli	...	La grande duchesse
Rudolf H. Neuhaus	...	L'ambassadeur
Maria Michi	...	Marietta
Nerio Bernardi

Autre(s) titre(s):

Charterhouse at Parma
La Certosa di Parma (Italy)
The Charterhouse of Parma

Durée:

170 min | West Germany:105 min

Pays:

France | Italy

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Rapport de forme:

1,37 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

West Germany:12 | Sweden:15

Société:

Les Films André Paulvé

Anecdotes:

During the shooting, all Italian actors spoke their lines in French. They were all dubbed afterwards.

Connexions De Film:

figure dans A Good Year (2006)

Fine, if overlong Stendhal adaptation

I quote from Time Out Film Guide, 11th ed. "...demonstrates to what degree French cinema de qualité was rather a matter of quantity, demanding a complacent accumulation of production values in lieu of the slightest vision or intelligence." This is boilerplate, trotted out to denigrate all literary adaptations made before Truffaut and Godard arrived on the scene. The film that I saw was made by a solid craftsman well before he became a hack. The sets are often stunning (the prison out of Piranesi), the costumes superb, the actors--well you couldn't ask for anybody better than Gerard Philipe and Maria Casarès, both 25 at the time, Renée Faure, Louis Salou, Lucien Coedel.

Christian-Jaque had one big problem when he sat down with Pierre Véry to write the script: the novel is very digressive and full of scenes that don't advance the action. It takes 40 pages from the meeting with Giletti to the knife fight resulting in Giletti's death that puts Fabrice in prison. It was necessary to eliminate some minor characters and the opening chapters dealing with Waterloo are gone (major disappointment for Stendhal fans). Most problematical: the story really gets underway when Fabrice enters prison, and that isn't until Chapter 18, more than halfway through the book. If you can be patient and wait till the half way mark in a picture that lasts almost three hours, you will enjoy a classic.

Maria Casarès was too young to play La Sanseverina, a woman in her late thirties, but let's not observe tradition here. The sexual excitement around the Gina-Fabrice-Clelia triangle is only made more potent with Casarès. The happy few can be even happier.