Mademoiselle (1966)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:42:50 | 3,80 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:42:50 | 3,80 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French, Spanish
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Keith Skinner
In a French village, Manou is an Italian logger, virile, with a broad laugh. He can't say no to women's sexual invitations, and jealous villagers blame him for recent fires and a flood. He is innocent; the culprit is "Mademoiselle," town schoolmarm, a recent arrival admired by all, but sexually repressed and obsessed with Manou. She sets the first fire accidentally and throbs watching a shirtless Manou perform heroics. Subsequent catastrophes are no accident and express her mad passion for him. Also, after befriending Manou's son, she turns on the lad, making him miserable and raising his suspicions. Her designs, Manou's frank innocence, and the town's xenophobia mix explosively.
A near-masterpiece directed by Tony Richardson, MADEMOISELLE can now be viewed on DVD in its proper aspect ratio (Panavision). . Based on a screenplay by Jean Genet (and Marguerite Duras) this almost entirely unique film is a study of human sexuality as a kind of game of power and control.
We are literally plunged into the world of Mademoiselle (the astounding Jeanne Moreau at her most Bette Davis-like) as the film opens: she is in the process of opening sluice gates that will flood a large stable in the small French town where she teaches young children. The very realistic depiction of this calamity and of two more (both fires) provide opportunities for Manou (Ettore Manni), an Italian woodsman, to perform heroic deeds. Manou, who is seen exclusively as an outsider by every French character in the film, risks his life in rescuing animals and in an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a human. In each of these unhappy events, the Italian is vilified and even blamed for causing them.
This is a situation of which Mademoiselle has taken advantage. Bringing about these calamities herself, she can control the handsome man whom she desires in a way that is depicted with utmost carnality, yet without a trace of prurience. Concurrently with these incendiary activities, Mademoiselle cruelly humiliates Manou's young son, Bruno, in her classroom. She does this to get a rise out of Manou, but it does not work because the boy never tells his father of her mistreatment. The unfortunate child's isolation and frustration are played to great effect by Keith Skinner, as Bruno acts out his own torment in an act of senseless brutality.
MADEMOISELLE has extraordinary cinematographic beauty, the work of David Watkin, who surely deserved the BAFTA prize for which he was nominated. But this is also a difficult film to watch, because of its images of animal suffering and its strange, yet riveting portrait of the elemental power of female sexuality. Unable to give herself to Manou (as several other women in the town have done) and thereby renounce her control, Mademoiselle engineers circumstances that lead to his complete submission.
The turning point is a rather heavy-handed, surrealistic scene in which Manou–encountered 'by chance' in the woods–reveals a snake wrapped around his waist. He offers it to Mademoiselle to touch. At this point, the woman is seemingly transformed by phallic contact. In a sequence of hedonistic degradation that is typical of Genet, she allows the male power to overtake her, going limp and nearly catatonic in the process. But this is revealed as the ultimate goal of her long-range plan. She believes Manou to be completely in her grasp. When he tells her he is leaving the town to escape the taunts of the villagers, Mademoiselle marches home in a stupor and denounces him. If she cannot possess Manou, no one can, and he must be destroyed.
There is something almost biblical in the parable-like way this tale is told. The stark, profoundly beautiful nature imagery and the complete absence of music create the effect of a closed universe where naked emotions are in charge: dark, ultimately uncontrollable lust and virulent xenophobia. MADEMOISELLE is not exactly like any other film and a discerning viewer will not soon forget its power.IMDB Reviewer,
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