Jul 04, 2014 id like to recommend an old book, forgotten by many, that was secretly published in france in 1942. Many great filmmakers never got the posters their films deserved. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music. With howard vernon, nicole stephane, jeanmarie robain, ami aaroe. With julie delarme, michel galabru, thomas jouannet, marie bunel. Id like to recommend an old book, forgotten by many, that was secretly published in france in 1942. Most of the film is confined to the living room of a bourgeois french family.
Brullers narrative took its point of departure from his own circumstances following frances defeat in 1940. Sorry again that it is a film nobody has seen, but please, please, please add it to your lists. As the officer delivers idealistic monologues about a new europe, he gradually realises how absurd such a belief can be. Army of shadows yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right. The silence of the sea is a 1949 film by jeanpierre melville. Against the will of its elderly male and his adult niece residents, the nazis commandeer a house for one of their officers, lt. Clandestinely written in 1942 during the nazi occupation of france and furtively distributed, it captured the spirit of the moment, and quickly became a staple of the. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between france. With howard vernon, nicole stephane, jean marie robain, ami aaroe. He went as far as allowing melville to shoot in his home in villierssurmorin seineet. Published secretly in germanoccupied paris, the book quickly became a symbol of mental resistance against german occupiers. Some of my favorite filmmakersim thinking yasujiro ozu, jacques rivette, mike leigh, and jeanmarie straub, to name just a fewfor one reason or another, whether it be the vagaries of distribution, the particulars of. It is the story of an older man who lives with his niece in a small town in france that is occupied by the germans in 1940.
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