The Full Deck (1934) Le grand jeu
The Full Deck (1934)
DVDRip | MKV | 704x576 | x264 @ 1875 Kbps | 110 min | 1,64 Gb
Audio: Français AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 704x576 | x264 @ 1875 Kbps | 110 min | 1,64 Gb
Audio: Français AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Jacques Feyder
Writers: Jacques Feyder (screenplay), Charles Spaak (screenplay)
Stars: Marie Bell, Pierre Richard-Willm, Charles Vanel
A marvellous rediscovery from the golden age of French cinema, Jacques Feyder’s Le Grand jeu is a tragic doppelgänger romance, steered by the fate of the tarot card, and set against the dizzying exoticism of 1930s Morocco.
When scandalous Parisian playboy Pierre Martel (Pierre Richard-Willm) is forced by his family to leave France and his adored lover Florence (Marie Bell), he begins a new life in the Foreign Legion as Pierre Muller. Drowning his regrets in camaraderie, whores, and hell-raising, he is astonished at meeting Irma (also Marie Bell), a prostitute with an uncanny resemblance to his beloved, and begins a fitful scheme to allow her escape.
An early benchmark of poetic realism and a fascinating precursor to both Duvivier’s Pépé le Moko and Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Feyder’s fluid, masterful storytelling make this a unique classic of the screen: vividly forceful yet subtle, acutely observed yet fantastic, world-weary yet tender.
This is a fine film from the golden age of french cinema, directed by the now nearly forgotten Feyder who was among other things the spiritual father of Marcel Carné (who contributed to several of his films). As usual, his wife Francoise Rosay has one of the leading roles. The somewhat melodramatic plot involves a yeuppie joining the foreign legion when he can no longer entertain the girl he loves. We get a femme fatale double as our hero meets a honky tonk temptress who reminds him of the girl he is trying to escape. The atmosphere is thick with sand, booze, sex, violence and Tarot cards. See this one if you have the chance, it is probably quite rare.
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The Full Deck (1934) Le grand jeu
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