“Pauline Croze, mise à nu” : A film by Didier Varrod directed by Didier Varrod and Frédéric Large
Une co-production Absolute Management/Didier Varrod/Wagram Music/France 4 avec Anne Claverie Jean-Louis Brossard Doriand Pierre-Yves Romano Garbis Baharian Nicolas Preschey Philippe Zdar Edith Fambuena Jean-François Delort Antoine Léger Les musiciens Raphaël Chassin Antoine Massoni Jérôme Boirivant Et Pauline Croze Entretiens Didier Varrod Photo Anne Claverie (Paris, 2020)
More than 80 years after its theatrical release, rediscover “Drôle de drama”, the unusual classic by Marcel Carné, on December 18 at the cinema
One of the most jubilant, delusional, absurd, “bizarre” films in French cinema!
Weird, yes, we said weird… An adaptation of Jacques Prévert (script and dialogues), from the novel His First Offence by the British author Joseph Storer Clouston.
Synopsis
London 1900. The very serious professor of botany Irwin Molyneux is none other than Felix Chapel, author of detective novels. The Bishop of Bedford, Irwin’s cousin, does not like this kind of literature and declares it very loudly during a supper where he is invited to the Molyneux. The absence of Margaret, Molyneux’s wife, at this supper, will trigger a series of very amusing misunderstandings.
“Drôle de Drama” The cult film by Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert, finally back to the cinema on December 18 in a restored version at the cinema.
Plus de 80 ans après sa sortie en salle, redécouvrez “Drôle de drame”, le classique insolite de Marcel Carné, le 18 décembre au cinéma.
Source: “Drôle de drame” un film de Marcel Carné / France Culture
Vivre Sa Vie (“My Life to Live”) is a 1962 French New Wave drama film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
Nana (Anna Karina), a beautiful Parisian in her early twenties, leaves her husband and infant son hoping to become an actress. Without money, beyond what she earns as a shopgirl, and unable to enter acting, she elects to earn better money as a prostitute. Soon she has a pimp, Raoul, who after an unspecified period agrees to sell Nana to another pimp. During the exchange the pimps argue and Nana is killed in a gun battle. Nana’s short life on film is told in 12 brief episodes each preceded by a written intertitle.
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Karina was best known for the string of films she made with Jean-Luc Godard, including A Woman Is a Woman and Pierrot le Fou
Danish-French actor Anna Karina, star of Bande à Part and Pierrot le Fou and collaborator with New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, has died of cancer at the age of 79, her agent said.
Karina, who epitomised 1960s chic with her elfin features and big kohl-rimmed blue eyes, starred in seven films made by her ex-husband Godard, including Alphaville.
“Anna died yesterday in a Paris hospital of the effects of cancer,” her agent Laurent Balandras told AFP, adding that she passed away in the company of her fourth husband, American director Dennis Berry.
“Today, French cinema has been orphaned. It has lost one of its legends,” culture minister Franck Riester tweeted.
Karina was still a teenager when she hitchhiked to Paris from her native Denmark to try to become an actress. She developed a successful modelling career before being spotted by Godard while walking along the Champs-Elysees. Godard offered her a nude scene in Breathless, his first film, but she refused.
They were a couple when, at barely 21, she won best actress at the Berlin film festival for his 1961 film A Woman is a Woman. They divorced in 1965. “We loved each other a lot,” Karina told AFP in an interview in Paris in March 2018. “But it was complicated to live with him,” she added.
“He was someone who could say to you, ‘I am going to get some cigarettes’ and come back three weeks later.”
She later went behind the camera to make Vivre Ensemble, a romance between a history teacher and a free spirited young woman that ends in drugs and domestic violence.
Karina also had some success as a singer, recording Sous Le Soleil Exactement with Serge Gainsbourg.
Source: French new wave star Anna Karina dies aged 79 | Film | The Guardian
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