#gabin users

[wieqo]

⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀๑⠀ ⠀🈞⠀ ⠀𝆹 ॱ

pyo hyemi - phyyiom

son sungah - sngahvs

park kyungri - kyngrios

jo sojin - sojjnni

lee keumjo - lekmjou

[celestiall0tus]

Siren's Song Acknowledgements

Making this to make it easier to display those involved in the making of Siren's Song and where the ideas came from. Please note that if I miss anyone, please inform me through DMs. I know there were a lot of people that suggested Character/Kwami pairings as well as ships. So, just notify by DM what you suggested that's making it into the final product and I'll add you on here. Now, let's get into this:

Specific mentions:

@kittysuicoffee for the Gabine ship

@mysteriouslymysticalgiver for the ideas for Colt, Chloe, Nathaniel, Aurore, and Felix and the inspiration for Alya's hero outfit

@doritos-green I know you suggested a lot (I don't remember a lot of them) but I do believe you suggested dragon!Zoe and Wyvern as her name.

and while not a direct idea, I want to give a shoutout to @marichated with the idea of Adrien being senti and with Marinette being Gabriel's bio baby and Adrien is not, hence the root cause of Adrien's problems.

@nocturnal-notes for Tiger!Socqueline's name Tiger Lily

Anonymous Mentions:

Ivangami

Love Triangle with Ondine

Ant!Max being a neutral gamemaster with a secret agenda

Kagami - Ladybug

Ivan - Black Cat

Mylene - Bee

Luka - Fox

Marinette - Butterfly

Adrien - Raven

Juleka - Bat

Rose - Swan

Chloe - Turtle - Mariana

Felix - Pig - Aetolian

Nino - Mouse

Sabrina - Owl

Lila - Robin - Pettirosso

Alix - Shark - Megalodon

Kim - Bear

Alya - Seal

Marc - Dog - Eros

Aurore - Dolphin - Sea Breeze

Nathaniel - Koala - Belphagor

Colt - Lynx - Lyncus

Amelie - Rabbit

Emilie - Horse

Nathalie - Spider - Neith

Sabine - Dove

Julenette

Adrinath

Lumarc

Aurose

Sabrina x Socqueline x Mylene

The fallen angel motif that Raven!Adrien has

Aurore being a miraculous user

Colt, Amelie, and Emilie all being heroes

Alix, Lila, Nino, Emilie, Zoe, Rose and Amelie's characters

Dog!Marc's design

The decision to add Felix to Lumarc

If I forgot anyone, please let me know and I will fix this list.

[inapat13]

The Use of Audio-Visual Archives in Histoires d’une nation, at the Service of a Counter-Narrative

         Histoires d’une nation, broadcasted on France 2 in September and October 2018 in four parts, is a documentary on the history of immigration in France since 1870, directed by Yann Coquart. This saga of almost four hours is composed of audio-visual archives, photographs, printed documents, filmed testimonies by immigrants or immigrants’ children, and a voiceover. Audio-visual archives come from diverse collections: Ciné-Archives of the French communist party, Gaumont-Pathé Archives, and INA.

          Audio-visual archives are mostly illustrations of an omnipresent voiceover, which leads the narrative. Most of them are colorised, have sound, and are reframed, so that their archival status is concealed. However, some of the archives are more than illustrative, being studied as a media representation of immigration in a specific period. For example, a film extract, starring Jean Gabin in the 1930s, embodies the idealisation of the working class after 1936 and the Front Populaire. Similarly, the celebration of football players, all of immigrant descent, on a sports channel, shows a period where origins did not seem to have an impact on the media coverage of players.

           The authors, Françoise Davisse et Carl Aderhold, also had to face the ethical issues met by all users of colonial images, and images made out of racist ideologies. They decided not to show British images they had found, picturing stereotyped Jews, because “there is no such thing as an “image of Jews””[1]. However, they chose to show images of the human zoos of the Colonial Exhibition of 1931, because they wanted to oppose these images to the first demonstrations for independence. Indeed, images are necessary to understand what colonial domination was. Still, the representation of colonised bodies raises the question of the right to a person’s image and dignity. Pascal Blanchard’s book Sexe, race et colonies, showing 1 200 photographs of sexualised, submitted bodies, without enough context, was highly criticised by some researchers and afro-feminist associations for these reasons.

           The use of archives in Histoires d’une nation is different from most documentaries concerning immigration. Indeed, these documentaries traditionally focus on individual micro-histories and/or family histories. The aim of Histoires d’une nation is, on the contrary, to include audio-visual archives within an editing in which the voiceover takes precedence over the image. They illustrate a national narrative, of which immigration forms an integral part. Thus, this documentary embodies a new interpretation of the past, with the ambition of having an impact on national memory. Indeed, this documentary was commissioned by France 2, broadcasted in prime time, and was followed by a debate hosted by Julian Bugier, a leading journalist of the channel. It was clearly addressing a broad audience. This demonstrates the will of France 2 to participate, in 2018, in the debate over a conflicting collective memory, especially concerning “national identity” and immigration. Though this documentary is not openly and radically involved politically, it is clearly a reaction against other discourses, themselves broadly publicised, picturing a “national narrative” from which immigration is excluded, or depreciated. Histoires d’une nation is only one example among many of the use of the past, and of audio-visual archives, to highlight conflicting memories, especially since the development of the new digital media.

Esther Montanès

[1] “Histoires d’une nation”, Arrêt sur images, 2018, URL : https://www.arretsurimages.net/emissions/arret-sur-images/histoires-dune-nation-france-2-voulait-une-serie-ni-clivante-ni-lenifiante, visited on the 7th of March, 2020.

[bookworm-jedi]

Rules: answer these questions then tag 20 blogs you’d like to know better

Nickname: Gabs

Zodiac: Sagittarius

Height: 5’7

Time: ???

Favorite band/artist: I don’t have a favorite. I usually just have songs I’m obsessed with and those can vary from different styles

Song stuck in my head: King by Lauren Aquilina

Last movie I saw: a quiet place

Last thing I googled: Edgar Wright movies

Other blogs: this is the one and only

Do I get asks: sometimes

Why did I choose this user name: I went with some friends to play laser tag and I kept getting the highest score so they called me the gabinator (my version of the terminator) and the Jedi part because it was my first fandom

Following: 114

Average amount of sleep: 8-10 hours

Lucky number: 7

What am I wearing: a t-shirt and pj shorts

Dream job: I’m going to be a teacher but if I were to do anything I would be a director/writer

Dream trip: backpacking through Europe

Favorite food: anything Italian or French

Play any instruments: piano

Eye color: blue

Hair color: blonde

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: sunflower fields, an old style book store, and Disney world Main Street

Languages you speak: English and a little bit of Latin and Spanish

Most iconic song: Friend like me from Aladdin

Random fact: I played basketball until I almost broke my back during a game (a year and a half later it still hurts and it pops all the time)

Tag: @mandaloriandragontrainer @ilovecatsandbaking @aceofstars16 @that-dork-you-followed @strugglinggryffindorkid @princesspbo @starwarsfanatic4life @mantarae18 @aq2003 @jamiejewel90 @whatwouldsteverogersnotdo @cinnamon-roll-parker @caraminha @nobledoritoman @veritascara @thejedijunkyard @parkerpete @prisonerofcell25 @quicksiluers @thechosenone260

[eric-sauvat]

Cajoler

Lavoûte-Chilhac, Mercredi 31 mars 2021

Cajoler

Avoir avec quelqu'un des manières douces, caressantes et tendres pour lui manifester sa tendresse : Cajoler un enfant. ... je refusais d'entrer dans les comédies concertées par les adultes; trop âgée à présent pour me faire caresser, câliner, cajoler par eux, j'avais de leur approbation un besoin de plus en plus aigu. S. de Beauvoir, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, 1956

Eh ! La tendresse, bordel ! Rugi par Gabin dans un film sans doute parolé par Prévert qui savait user des mots.

Que diraient-ils tous deux s’ils revenaient sur terre, où la tendresse n’est plus?

La tendresse, c’est ce qui fait pétiller le champagne et le différencie des autres vins ; la tendresse fait pétiller l’amour qui sans, elle est brutale, voir bestial.

J’aime ce sentiment qui cajole, qui console, atténuant la rigueur des choses de la vie.

Douce coloration d’un ciel d’orage, elle est l’espoir d’une rapide accalmie, le rend supportable, le rend indifférent en nous rappelant qu’il ne fait que passer.

La tendresse a fui ce monde voué à la vitesse, à l’indifférence de tous à la souffrance de l’autre, donnant totale priorité au progrès.

Où est la tendresse d’un jet jaillissant vers le ciel, au lieu de s’élever tendrement tel un ballon quittant le sol pour amener ses passagers à voir la nature sous ses pieds ?

Peut-on parler de tendresse lors du mariage de deux magnats du pétrole associant par là leur maîtrise sur le monde ?

Je veux mourir tendre, offrant un dernier verre à mon épouse, pour la consoler de mon départ.

Seul le veau est une viande toujours tendre…

[notesonfilm1]

The first of two podcasts with the great Ginette Vincendeau on the great Jean Gabin. I´ve always been a fan of Gabin´s but my interest in him was revived by the ‘Jean Gabin: The Man With Blue Eyes’ retrospective curated by Edouard Waintrop at the 1919 Il Cinema Ritrovatto  in Bologna,  where aside from more familiar classics like Pépé le Moko (Julien Duvivier) and Le plaisir (Max Ophüls, 1951), I also had the opportunity to see Coeur de Lilas (Anatole Litvak, 1931), De haut en bas (George W. Pabst), Au-delà des grilles (René Clément, 1948), La Marie du port (Marcel Carné, 1949), and others.

I wanted to talk about all of this and find out more about Gabin. And who knows more about Gabin than Ginette Vincendeau? Ginette is Professor in Film Studies at King´s College London. As you can see from some of her various books above, she´s written on French Cinema of the 1930s, on Gabin specifically, on Gabin films in particular (Pépé le Moko), on directors Gabin worked with (Renoir) stars and stardom in French Cinema, texts in context in French cinema, etc. No one of my acquaintance knows more about Gabin and few are as much fun to talk to.

https://soundcloud.com/user-766042506/in-conversation-with-ginette-vincendeau-part-1

This above, the first of two podcast, covers the period up to 1954, where after a fallow post-war period Gabin once again re-emerged as a top box-office attraction. Who was Jean Gabin? How did he become a star? What did he represent in the 1930s and how is that significant in terms of class and national identity? How central is he to 1930s French Cinema. Was he allied to the Popular Front. There´s a narrative of failure around Gabin´s post-war career. Does that narrative hold up to scrutiny? These questions and others are discussed in this first podcast. The second will deal with the period from 1954 to his death in 1976.

  Some of my blogging and podcasting on Gabin films of this period, mostly arising from he viewing in Ritrovato, can be found by clicking the hyperlinks above and below:

  La Bandera (Julien Duvivier, 1935)

Le jour se lève (Marcel Carné, 1935)

Martin Roumagnac (Georges Lacombe, 1946)

Podcast from Ritrovatto that touches on Gabin

José Arroyo

In Conversation with Ginette Vincendeau – Part 1 The first of two podcasts with the great Ginette Vincendeau on the great Jean Gabin. I´ve always been a fan of Gabin´s but my interest in him was revived by the 'Jean Gabin: The Man With Blue Eyes' retrospective curated by Edouard Waintrop at the 1919 Il Cinema Ritrovatto  in Bologna,  where aside from more familiar classics like…

[un-enfant-immature]

Age restrictions proposed for drone use in UK

The UK is currently mulling a lot of new regulations around drones, aimed at clamping down on consumer use ahead of a seemingly inevitable explosion. Among a deluge of proposal is age restriction, banning use of drones weighing more than 0.55 pounds by anyone under the age of 18.

That proposed age limit would be three years younger than the age restriction on applying for a full plane or helicopter license. In the case of the proposed drone restriction, however, kids could potentially still fly a drone, so long as they do so with adult supervision.

The proposed legislation follows similar laws put in place in the U.S., where an FAA-imposed drone registry has been the source of a protracted legal back and forth. The U.K. has imposed some rules as well, restricting the height of consumer drone flights (400 feet), and banning flights near airports.

Recent proposals in the U.K. include the use of anti-drone technology around selected events and locations, and mandating that users file flight plans in designated apps before take off. Drone advocacy groups are pushing back on the proposal naturally. While certain regulation seems like a no-brainer, there’s a suggestion that limiting the age of use is a step too far and perhaps counterproductive.

“We’ve got to promote the safe and responsible use of drones, but children are the future of the drone world, so it’s also important they can have access to drones and use them,” Gabin Wishart of the Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems told the BBC. “The drone industry is expected to be a large part of the economy going forward so you don’t want to stop kids from exploring that.”

[theinvinciblenoob]

The UK is currently mulling a lot of new regulations around drones, aimed at clamping down on consumer use ahead of a seemingly inevitable explosion. Among a deluge of proposal is age restriction, banning use of drones weighing more than 0.55 pounds by anyone under the age of 18.

That proposed age limit would be three years younger than the age restriction on applying for a full plane or helicopter license. In the case of the proposed drone restriction, however, kids could potentially still fly a drone, so long as they do so with adult supervision.

The proposed legislation follows similar laws put in place in the U.S., where an FAA-imposed drone registry has been the source of a protracted legal back and forth. The U.K. has imposed some rules as well, restricting the height of consumer drone flights (400 feet), and banning flights near airports.

Recent proposals in the U.K. include the use of anti-drone technology around selected events and locations, and mandating that users file flight plans in designated apps before take off. Drone advocacy groups are pushing back on the proposal naturally. While certain regulation seems like a no-brainer, there’s a suggestion that limiting the age of use is a step too far and perhaps counterproductive.

“We’ve got to promote the safe and responsible use of drones, but children are the future of the drone world, so it’s also important they can have access to drones and use them,” Gabin Wishart of the Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems told the BBC. “The drone industry is expected to be a large part of the economy going forward so you don’t want to stop kids from exploring that.”

via TechCrunch

[fmservers]

Age restrictions proposed for drone use in UK

The UK is currently mulling a lot of new regulations around drones, aimed at clamping down on consumer use ahead of a seemingly inevitable explosion. Among a deluge of proposal is age restriction, banning use of drones weighing more than 0.55 pounds by anyone under the age of 18.

That proposed age limit would be three years younger than the age restriction on applying for a full plane or helicopter license. In the case of the proposed drone restriction, however, kids could potentially still fly a drone, so long as they do so with adult supervision.

The proposed legislation follows similar laws put in place in the U.S., where an FAA-imposed drone registry has been the source of a protracted legal back and forth. The U.K. has imposed some rules as well, restricting the height of consumer drone flights (400 feet), and banning flights near airports.

Recent proposals in the U.K. include the use of anti-drone technology around selected events and locations, and mandating that users file flight plans in designated apps before take off. Drone advocacy groups are pushing back on the proposal naturally. While certain regulation seems like a no-brainer, there’s a suggestion that limiting the age of use is a step too far and perhaps counterproductive.

“We’ve got to promote the safe and responsible use of drones, but children are the future of the drone world, so it’s also important they can have access to drones and use them,” Gabin Wishart of the Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems told the BBC. “The drone industry is expected to be a large part of the economy going forward so you don’t want to stop kids from exploring that.”

Via Brian Heater https://techcrunch.com

[fiorekrp]

That’s CHERCHE BRIAND —  

She looks a lot like JENNIE KIM.

GUILD MARK : black, small fairytail mark located on her right collarbone 

MAGIC : celestial spirit magic

a type of Magic in which the user summons Celestial Spirits by opening their gates through the use of Celestial Spirit Gate Keys. These Keys are separated into two classes: the more common Silver Keys and the rarer Gold Keys. 

ADVANTAGES :

MAGIC SENSIBILITY: cherche has the keen ability to detect magic more efficiently than most mages. she is able to sense magic and how strong opponents could be despite them not exerting any strength. the ability is useful in order to save others and herself during battles.

ENDURANCE: she is able to endure battles while also keeping her spirits out of the spirit world during combat. battles are able to last long when she fights.

DISADVANTAGES :

DURABILITY: due to the fact that she is still a weak wizard, her physical strength is not up to par as her magical strength. she is able to be harshly wounded with a single blow to her own body as she relies on the protection of her celestial spirits.

COMBAT: cherche is not one to fight anyone with hand to hand combat. most of the time, she will use celestial spirits or any celestial weapon she can obtain rather than using her own fists to fight.

TRIGGERS : N/A PERSONALITY :

POSITIVE — encouraging, outgoing, comforting

NEGATIVE — stubborn, easily annoyed, physically weak

BIOGRAPHY :

commonly known around the fairytail guild as everyone’s “little sister.”

around magnolia, the briand family had the reputation of being such sweet folk, such a shame they were one of the poorest of the poor. everyday, gabin and adalaide briand struggled with their single food stand, serving street food to the citizens, battling other merchants for a chance of selling goods, and managing to always lose in the end. the both of them were low ranking celestial spirit mages with little strength to show off, so with their magic their food stand resulted as the silver key spirits they owned helped them cook and take care of the both of them. despite being poor, they were content with doing what they loved with spirits they prized.

however, the day their daughter, cherche, was born, they realized they needed much more than what they had in order to provide for the child. cherche grew up helping them with the stand, walking all over the town and calling out at citizens to advertise their food. despite being so young and having to live in such poor conditions, her parents loved cherche and her obedience with the reassurance she understood what she had to do. she grew up to be a fine young girl in her parent’s eyes, helping out with pushing the food cart, making the food with the spirits, and doing the absolute best she can do to urge on her parents to strive for greater conditions.

as the years went on, cherche was at the age of twelve at the moment that a wizard had stumbled past the town gates of magnolia. without any strength, they collapsed right onto the road, shocking the townsfolk running errands as random as he could have been. clearly hurt, they were unable to move and began to mumble cries for help, but people only stood and watched. gabin, now an aging old man, was the first to run towards the injured wizard and help them get up, carrying them on his back, while walking towards his family that was serving citizens across the road. dropping all the business they had to do that day, they took the wizard back to their small apartment and allowed them to rest on cherche’s bed, the only bed within the small apartment. identifying the stranger as a FAIRYTAIL WIZARD, the guild within magnolia town, they immediately took them back to the guild hall after adalaide made sure they were okay to walk again.

this was the first time cherche had ever seen the inside of the guild hall. of any guild hall, to be in fact. it was rowdy with big, scary wizards everywhere, using magic nothing like how her parents had. she stood by her mother hiding away as they walked the wizard back to his home. the guild master, makarov, was rather shocked to see them come in with a wizard of his, waiting for an explanation. the nameless wizard then began to talk, suddenly gaining the strength to speak as they uttered the words, “these selfless people saved me.“

“they fed me, they housed me. these two, both of them without a bed for themselves, gave me their own daughter’s bed to sleep on. the mission i had gone on had took a wrong turn. without them, i would’ve stayed dead on the streets.“

pleased with the words of the wizard, makarov was intrigued with the helpfulness of the briand family and offered them a place at fairytail, out of poor living conditions and surrounded with the opportunity to release the full potential of their magic and the offers of missions to help them receive jewels.

despite the benefits they had been offered, both gabin and adalaide declined. their spirits weren’t for fighting or for their own personal gain, but for help to live out each other’s passions. makarov, quickly realizing what they truly wanted, then changed his offer and requested they become fairytail’s official chefs, allowing them to cook for the wizards of fairytail while living at the guild hall itself too. rather pleased with the decision, gabin and adalaide wholeheartedly accepted the request.

the transition was definitely not hard for the couple. they have been serving magnolia and fairytail wizards for years, some of which were already regular customers who wanted a piece of their street food after missions. however, to their daughter, it was a different story. cherche became timid and grew to become quiet rather than encouraging, thinking about how her parents did not need the support since they got what they wanted. all that soon quickly changed once cherche began to be spoken to by makarov and the other wizards as they found the girl rather cute and soft. as the years went on, she grew to become more comfortable with the wizards of fairytail, almost acting as headstrong as the stereotypical wizard acts, joking along with ease. thus, fairytail’s own self proclaimed "little sister” was born.

cherche had grown into a fine young lady (in fairytail’s standards), becoming somewhat of an eye candy to the townsfolk of magnolia. her popularity also grew with her parents’ help, the two being now dedicated chefs of fairytail for the past nine years. not only that, but the girl also began to signs of having celestial spirit magic, just like her parents, making it official at the moment she had made a pact with fairytail’s own celestial spirit: LEO THE LION.

now, cherche’s own strengths are beginning to get tested. alongside leo the lion, she began her journey as an official fairytail celestial mage, taking missions and fighting for passion.

[vrheadsets]

Psychic VR Lab Announces NEWVIEW AWARD 2018

The NEWVIEW AWARDS 2018 have been announced as part of an on going project to discover virtual reality (VR) content in the fashion, culture and art fields.Dubbed NEWVIEW the project is being run by Psychic VR Labs, which provides the VR Creative Platform STYLY, PARCO and Loftwork.

The NEWVIEW AWARDS 2018 aims to pursue new expressions, cultures, and lifestyles such as ‘design of super-experience’ created by the next generation of content creators. The project also aims to excavate all creator who are expressing near future, using 3D and virtual space. The theme for the award is “Design you ultra experience” with a prize pool over $35,000 (USD) up for grabs for winning entries.

The entry period for the award will run from today through to July 31st, 2018 with applications open for international submission as well. Psychic VR Labs will be holding a workshop to support the creation of VR works in Tokyo, Kyoto during this period as well. The finalists’ work will be put on display at the end of August, 2018 in Tokyo as well for public viewing. Those finalists will be forty in total, with a final screening scheduled for sometime in early October, 2018.

Psychic VR Labs’ STYLY allows users to create VR content within a cloud and browser based environment, including the option to share spaces for collaborative working. The free platform empowered content creators to build the VR experiences they want without the need to type a single line of code. The dragon and drop interfact allows for simple, accessible and powerful content creation. Though entries for the NEWVIEW AWARDS using STYLY are encouraged, they are not limited to this platform and can be created with any tool. Work that has already been released is also able to be submitted to the awards.

Some of the examiners on the panel for the NEWVIEW AWARDS 2018 include – and not limited to – René Pinnell, CEO & Founder of Kaleidoscope; Mr.Ito Gabin, editor and professor of Women’s Art College in Japan; Mr. Hideki Matsutake, a musician and synthesizer programmer and Takashi Izumizu / Managing Executive Officer PARCO.

A short promotion video has been released for the NEWVIEW AWARDS 2018 which you can view below. VRFocus will be sure to bring you all the latest on the awards and Psychic VR Labs in the future so stay tuned for more.

from VRFocus https://ift.tt/2LfUm8O

[beldiboudoir]

Être sous un soleil Casablancais radieux, cela donne vite des idées d’articles qui transpire l’été, les cocotiers et le monoï …

Qui dit saison chaude signifie changement de garde-robe et pour certaines, panique à bord ! Cet article vous servira de guide de survie ou du moins, d’inspirations à chiper pour vous sentir en phase avec cette période un peu spéciale.

En ce qui me concerne, mon style est un peu particulier et je n’aime pas suivre toutes les tendances, mais quand celle-ci semble coller à mes goûts, je ne peux que m’en réjouir et user de ma créativité pour imaginer des looks dans lesquels je me sens bien, belle et confortable.

Vous y trouverez 5 idées de robes, différentes, mais tout de même similaire dans l’esprit un peu boho, traditionnel et décontracté.

Cette année, l’air est au vintage pour mon plus grand plaisir, on retrouve le goût des belles choses et on construit son dressing grâce au style indémodable d’icônes comme Brigitte Bardot ou encore Sofia Loren !

Ma sélection 

Le port de la robe à toujours était ma hantise, paraitre trop féminine ou trop apprêtée ? Il n’en était pas question !

Un raisonnement qui me parait à l’heure actuelle tout à fait absurde, la robe est pourtant l’hybride d’un dressing et donne résolument du cachet à une tenue simple.

À volants, courts, plissés, fluide ou encore en soie … Les combinaisons sont multiples et participent de l’originalité du vêtement, à accessoirisé au gré de vos envies évidemment.

Reformation – Temple dress

Rouje – Robe Gabin

Réalisation par – Ozzie Dress

Yinèss – Robe Tanya

Bakchic – Kahenas dress

La robe⎟ guide de survie du dressing estival Être sous un soleil Casablancais radieux, cela donne vite des idées d'articles qui transpire l'été, les cocotiers et le monoï ...

[notesonfilm1]

  Below is the second part of a two-part podcast with Ginette Vincendeau on Jean Gabin, which picks up a little before the first part ended. Once Gabin returned to top stardom in France in ´54/55, what values did he represent/signify? Does he mean something different in France than abroad? What is it and why? Is it true he didn´t make any good films after ‘Touchez-pas au grisby’ and ‘French Can Can’? What is the significance of him being cast with co-stars so much younger than himself like Bardot and Danièle Delorme? What does ´La France Gabinisée´and ‘La Gabinisation de la France’ mean. I ask the questions but it is Ginette´s answers that fascinate and illuminate.

https://soundcloud.com/user-766042506/in-conversation-with-ginette-2-final

  I am grateful to Will Straw who brought to my attention the special issue of Schnock which featured Gabin and which asserted, in ways that are visualised below, that ´Gabin´means something different at home and abroad and that at home he signifies a particular type of Frenchness. This lead me to ask Ginette about it and she brought up Jean-Laurent Cassely´s book, No fake: Contre-histoire de notre quête dáuthenticité, and the concept of ‘Gabinisation’, as well as Ginette´s noting of how often ‘Gabin’ is turned into a verb: Gabinise, Gabiniser…

  Will also brought up the interview with Nicolas Pariser in the October 2019 issue of Cahiers du cinéma, which I ask Ginette to comment on in the podcast:

My rough translation is as follows: ‘Those films from the 50s where Gabin tells off young people are cinema´s absolute evil. In Rue des prairies, he bawls out Marie-José Nat because she does nothing and wakes up late. I have a bit of an extreme thesis: I think May ´68 was because of Gabin. He became unbearable at a certain moment. The cinema I love exploded that reactionary schema. And astonishingly we find  nostalgia for 50s cinema were the old explain life to the young in quite a few contemporary French Films’

I am also grateful to Nicky Smith for noting the difference in ages between Gabin and his female co-stars, and how this trope recurred in so many films. This lead to an interesting discussion with Ginette on this issue where Ginette notes how strong that trope is in French cinema in general, can be seen in the thirties in films like Arlette et ses papas (Henri Roussel, 1934) , and continues on quite late  and in various cultural forms(e.g. Serge Gainsbourg Lemon Incest). 

You can follow up on all of these issues through Ginette´s books below:

Furthermore, I have blogged on some of  Gabin´s later films, some mentioned in the podcast, and if you want to pursue that further you can click on the hyperlinks below.

Articles:

Voici le temps des assassins/ Deadlier than the Male (Julien Duvivier, France, 1956)

Miagret tend un piège (Jean Delannoy, 1958)

Maigret et l’affaire St. Fiacre (Jean Delannoy, France, 1959)

Le clan des Siciliens/The Sicilian Clan (Henri Verneuil, France/USA, 1969)

Le chat (Pierre Granier-Deferre, France, 1971)

Le tueur/ Killer (Denys de la Patellière, France/Italy, 1972)

On clips from:

Touchez-pas au grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954)

Razzia sour la chnouf (Henri Decoin, 1955)

French Can-can (Jean Renoir 1955)

José Arroyo

In Conversation with Ginette Vincendeay — Part II Below is the second part of a two-part podcast with Ginette Vincendeau on Jean Gabin, which picks up a little before the first part ended.