Pattes blanches (1949) White Paws
Pattes blanches (1949)
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Genre: Drama
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Audio: Français DTS 2.0 @ 768 Kbps | Subs (embedded): English, Français
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Grémillon
Writers: Jean Anouilh (scenario), Jean Bernard-Luc (scenario)
Stars: Suzy Delair, Fernand Ledoux, Paul Bernard
Odette arrives in a fishing village in Brittany and stirs up a dangerous rivalry among the local menfolk, while her innkeeper husband remains wholly ignorant of his wife’s shenanigans. Lumière d’été’s Bernard returns to the role of decadent provincial aristocrat.
Immediate background: Jean Anouilh who wrote the screenplay was to direct the movie but he fell sick and had to give up. He chose Jean Grémillon, one of the great directors of the golden age of the FRench cinema (1935-1945) to do the job and he was right.
Jean Grémillon gathered a splendid cast including Paul Bernard, as the fallen aristocrat ("Pattes Blanches"), Fernand Ledoux, Suzy Delair at her bitchiest, and -the Chabrol fans will notice it- a very young Michel Bouquet as the squire's doomed brother, Sylvie and Arlette Thomas.
This latter actress is completely forgotten today,but her part brings some hope in a desperate - most of Anouilh's plays are - story. Her character, a hunchback whom Odette (Delair) despises, resembles Cinderella, a miserable Cinderella (check the admirable sequence in the castle ). Another memorable scene shows the noble,on the edge of the cliff, holding Odette's bridal veil.
Don't let the current rating fool you. "Pattes Blanches ", with its distraught lyricism, is a must.
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Pattes blanches (1949) White Paws
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