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The English post-war cinema invites itself to the big screen
The retrospective on British post-war cinema fills expectations with two little jewels signed David Lean. However, Edward Dmytryk.
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The Locarno Festival is highlighting this year the English post-war cinema.
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With piazza large and international competition, retrospective is one of the main pillars of Locarno Festival. Nevertheless, Very run by moviegoers. Meanwhile, designed once again by the director, a film critic writer Ehsan Khoshbakht, she focuses this year on post-war English cinema, as indicated by her title, Great Expectations: locarno festival: english cinema spotlight British Postwar Cinema 1945-1960.
This period was frequently criticized by criticism deploring its conformist side. However, she had her hours of glory for her important evolution, her intense creativity, and the talent of her filmmakers. Moreover, Whether it is the essential David Lean, Carol Reed, Powell and Pressburger, or authors of forgotten nuggets.
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In 45 films. they tell the story of a nation by brushing its portrait, also highlighting the influence of often overlooked women and that of American directors forced to exile by the infamous Hollywood black list for suspicion locarno festival: english cinema spotlight of communist affiliation.
Unlike a golden leopard hunt for nothing mollachue, fortunately doped by Abdellatif Kechiche, the retrospective fills expectations. Starting with a jewel signed David Lean. The Passionnate Friends (1949), based on the eponymous novel of Hgwells, which scotches us from the first images, with a twist intrigue taking place in part in Switzerland.
Currently in love when they were young, Mary (magnificent Ann Todd) and Stephen (Trevor Howard) separated. Sacrificing her passion for material security, she had married Howard Justin (Claude Rains), a wealthy banker older than her. Mary and Steven, however, start to see each other again, but the jealous and possessive husband brutally ends this affair.
A few years later, Mary on vacation in the Alps, met Steven by chance. She tries to revive the memory of locarno festival: english cinema spotlight her first love, the only one, but she let her chance pass. Between romance. upset, marriage and infidelity, David Lean engages in a fine and subtle analysis of the love triangle in a bright film with sumptuous photography.
Locarno festival: english cinema spotlight
The Machiavellian Plan of English cinema
We remain in theme of the husband deceived with obsession (1949). Adapted from the novel a man about a dog by Alec Coppel. the film is signed Edward Dmytryk, a victim but later collaborator of the MacCarthysm. Clive Riordan (Robert Newton). renowned London psychiatrist, loving to discuss business in chic London clubs, disjuncts when he discovers the affair of his wife Storm (Sally Gray) with Bill Kronin (Phil Brown) a beautiful American diplomat. He then imagined diabolical revenge. meticulously preparing the perfect murder of the lover which he removes and held prisoner for locarno festival: english cinema spotlight months in a cellar.
Playing with the nerves of its hostage, climbs little by little in madness. But while he will finally execute his Machiavellian plan and get rid of the evidence, the machine is growing. Because Scotland Land Yard watches. in the person of a superintendent to the phlegm, the sticky presence and the insight of a Columbo. A humorous. unexpected touch in this original, skillful, captivating, well interpreted and well -conducted suspense black film, despite a few lengths. A minor reserve.
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