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L'uomo che amava le donne (L'homme qui aimait les femmes) è un film del 1977 diretto da François Truffaut.

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Charles Denner and Yves Montand in Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)

Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Pierre Dux, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer, Georges Géret, Bernard Fresson, Marcel Bozzuffi, Julien Guiomar, Magali Noël. Screenplay: Jorge Semprún, based on a novel by Vassiliis Vassilikos. Cinematography: Raoul Coutard. Production design: Jacques D’Ovidio. Film editing: Françoise Bonnot. Music: Mikis Theodorakis. 

Costa-Gavras's great political thriller, Z,  was an unsettling film to watch in 1969, the year after Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated, the police clashed with demonstrators at the Democratic convention in Chicago, and Richard Nixon was elected president. What makes it unsettling in today's political climate is the way the film shows the destructive collaboration of ideologues, buffoons, and thugs. It's an often grimly funny movie, particularly in the portrayal of the general in charge of the police, who as played by Pierre Dux is both ideologue and buffoon. There is buffoonery also among the thugs, and Costa-Gavras has fun mocking the conspirators who, once they angrily leave the room in which they've been indicted, each try to open a locked door. But we mock them in vain. For while the efforts of the prosecutor played beautifully by Jean-Louis Trintignant are heroic and Costa-Gavras and screenwriter Jorge Semprún make us expect justice to prevail, it doesn't. The story is that of the assassination of Greek opposition politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963 and the subsequent investigation that brought a glimmer of hope to the country only to be squelched by the military coup of 1967. However, the film is set in no specific country -- it was filmed in Algeria -- and only an opening "disclaimer" that parodies the usual assertion about any resemblance to persons living or dead dares to say that the resemblances in the film are entirely intentional. Costa-Gavras and Semprún were political exiles from, respectively, Greece and Spain. The composer Mikis Theodorakis had been arrested and his music was banned in Greece; he gave Costa-Gavras permission to use existing compositions for the film score. But the decision to set the film in no particular place only strengthened its ability to reach out and make its story meaningful beyond a specific place and time. Although Yves Montand and Irene Papas get top billing as the assassinated politician and his wife, Montand's role is comparatively small and Papas's is virtually a cameo. The movie is mostly carried by Trintignant and by Jacques Perrin, one of its producers who also plays a very aggressive investigative journalist, and a capable supporting cast. It won Oscars as the best foreign-language film and for Françoise Bonnot's film editing. It was also nominated in the best picture category, and picked up nominations for best director and best adapted screenplay, but lost in those categories to Midnight Cowboy and its director, John Schlesinger, and screenwriter, Waldo Salt.

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La Vie à l'Envers, dir. Alain Jessua (1964)

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Bluebeard (Landru) (1963) Claude Chabrol

January 15th 2023

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L'homme qui aimait les femmes

Charles Denner

La compagnie des femmes,

Les jambes

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Penser à Charles Denner, l'homme qui aimait les femmes : les jambes sont des compas

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French film actors of Alain Delon's generation who were more accomplished, more interesting, and on the whole, less fascist, racist, homophobic, and abusive towards everyone in their personal lives than Delon was: Maurice Ronet, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Yanne, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Sami Frey, Charles Denner, Michel Serrault, Gérard Blain, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Michel Lonsdale, Bruno Cremer…

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Cinematic moments

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Jeanne Moreau et Charles Denner dans "La Mariée était en Noir" est de François Truffaut (1968) - adapté du roman éponyme de William Irish (1940) - juin 2024.

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The Bride Wore Black will be released on Blu-ray on February 14 via Kino Lorber. The 1968 French revenge thriller is directed by François Truffaut (The 400 Blows, Fahrenheit 451).

Truffaut co-wrote the script with Jean-Louis Richard, based on the 1940 novel by Cornell Woolrich (Rear Window). Jeanne Moreau stars with Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich, Charles Denner, Michael Lonsdale, and Serge Rousseau.

The Bride Wore Black includes reversible artwork. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by critics Julie Kirgo, Steven C. Smith, and Nick Redman

Theatrical trailer

After newly widowed Julie Kohler's (Jeanne Moreau) mother stops her from commiting suicide, she hatches a different plan to deal with her grief. In a small black book, she lists five men. One by one she visits the men with murderous intentions, assuming different identities to get close to them. Only one man remains elusive, having been captured by the cops before Julie could reach him -- but despite the obstacles, Julie intends to see her task through to the end.

Pre-order The Bride Wore Black.

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