Le silence de la mer film melville

Vercors donne son aval pour sa distribution mais il faut. Army of shadows yet remains a singularly eerie masterwork in its own right. However, that writerdirector was the great jeanpierre melvillewhod go on to make such classics as bob le flambeur, le samourai, and army of shadowsand he knew exactly what he was doing. Also this moc dvd has an excellent transfer, and the extras are really interesting with jeanette vincendeau introducing melville as a film maker. Melville attempted to get the rights to the film from vercors and was promptly refused. The future famous director guarantees to submit the film as soon as it was finished to a jury of resistant selected by. Melville, of course, was heavily involved in the french resistance. He went outside the film industry in order to make the film and didnt even have. Feb 04, 2012 a hero of the french new wave for his independence from the mainstream french film industry, jeanpierre melville. A second englishlanguage tv adaptation was broadcast by the bbc in 1981, and a stage version by john crowther was performed by the heywood society in the theatre at peterhouse, cambridge in 1985, with the presumably ironic title. The silence of the sea is a 1949 film by jeanpierre melville. Jeanpierre melvilles debut is a civilised and claustrophobic masterpiece, writes philip french. Most of the film is confined to the living room of a bourgeois french family.

It was melville s first feature film, and was based on the. Melville called it an anticinematic film, and he creates the. The house where he now stays is inhabited by young jeanne, who makes a living by giving piano lessons, and by her grandfather. The film is very well made, actually one of melvilles better films.

Sutnja mora je francuski crnobijeli film snimljen 1949. An american in paris, discusses melvilles remarkable film debut. Against the will of its elderly male and his adult niece residents, the nazis commandeer a house for one of their officers, lt. The 1080p24hz highdefinition presentation is presented in the film s original aspect ratio of about 1. It was melvilles first feature film, and was based on the 1942 book of the same name by jean bruller published clandestinely under the pen name vercors. Also this moc dvd has an excellent transfer, and the extras are really interesting with jeanette vincendeau introducing melville as a film. Jeanpierre melvilles cinema of resistance the new yorker. The film had long been unseen after it was suppressed in france in 1969. With howard vernon, nicole stephane, jeanmarie robain, ami aaroe. A hero of the french new wave for his independence from the mainstream french film industry, jeanpierre melville. It was melvilles first feature film, and was based on the. Jeanpierre melvilles the silence of the sea returns wsj.

Two years later, he had his own studios built, on a dour paris street, with two sound stages. It was melvilles first feature film, and was based on the 1942 book of the same name by jean bruller. A decade before the nouvelle vague, melville laid the groundwork for the movement with an independent. Le samourai, perhaps his most famous policier, features a protagonist. An american in paris, discusses melville s remarkable film debut. I begin with all my intellectual, historical, and social defenses raised against the argument that i must see its protagonist, a nazi officer, as a flawed. The film is very well made, actually one of melville s better films. In an interview with the film historian rui nogueira, melville recalled. The seeds of the french new wave were sown here, and the harvest would be bountiful indeed. Jeanpierre melville began his superb feature filmmaking career with this powerful. The transfer comes from a highdefinition scan of a 35mm finegrain. The exact extent of his involvement is not quite known, but the loud whispers combined with his military records paint a dedicated and daring figure of the movement. We also go beyond the immediate historical circumstances, contemplating not only the fate of france and the crimes of nazism but also the most intimate hesitations and resignations of the heart. The basis of the film was a 1942 novel published clandestinely during the german occupation in france by vercors.